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Making an Exit

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by Sarah Murray

Hughes, Robert. “All-American Barbaric Yawp.” Time, May 6, 1996.

  Kim, Hyung-Jin. “South Koreans Give Their Deaths a Trial Run.” Associated Press, January 13, 2008.

  Secretan, Thierry. Going into Darkness: Fantastic Coffins from Africa. London: Thames & Hudson, 1995.

  Stewart, Henry. “The End of the Cemetery.” CUNY Graduate School of Journalism Research Center, New York, 2008.

  St. John, Warren. “On the Final Journey, One Size Doesn’t Fit All.” New York Times, September 28, 2003.

  Resources

  The Green Burial Council

  www.greenburialcouncil.org

  5. PACKING FOR ETERNITY

  Aiken, Lewis R. “Dying, Death and Bereavement.” Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2001.

  Becker, Ernest. The Denial of Death. New York: Free Press Paperbacks, 1973.

  Berling, Judith A. “Death and Afterlife in Chinese Religions.” In Death and Afterlife: Perspectives of World Religions. Edited by Hiroshi Obayashi. New York: Praeger, 1992.

  Flannelly, Kevin J., Christopher G. Ellison, Kathleen Galek, and Harold G. Koenig. “Beliefs About Life-after-Death, Psychiatric Symptomology and Cognitive Theories of Psychopathology.” Journal of Psychology and Theology 36 (2008).

  James, William. The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature. New York: Longmans, Green & Co, 1902.

  Jordan, David K. Gods, Ghosts and Ancestors: The Folk Religion of a Taiwanese Village. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1972.

  Lee Scott, Janet. For Gods, Ghosts and Ancestors: The Chinese Tradition of Paper Offerings. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2007.

  Obayashi, Hiroshi. “Introduction.” In Death and Afterlife: Perspectives of World Religions. New York: Obayashi, Hiroshi, Praeger, 1992.

  Portal, Jane. The First Emperor: China’s Terracotta Army. London: British Museum, 2007.

  Rapoport, Scott. “Now You, Too, Can Call Out the Dead In N.J.” CBS News, April 9, 2008.

  Roach, Mary. Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife. New York: Norton, 2005.

  Scott, Sean A. “‘Earth Has No Sorrow That Heaven Cannot Cure’: Northern Civilian Perspectives on Death and Eternity During the Civil War.” Journal of Social History 41 (2008).

  Solomon, Sheldon, Jeff Greenberg, Jeff Schimel, Jamie Arndt, and Tom Pyszczynski. “Human Awareness of Mortality and the Evolution of Culture.” In The Psychological Foundations of Culture. Edited by Mark Schaller and Christian S. Crandall. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2004.

  Waters, Dan. “Chinese Funerals: A Case Study.” 34th International Congress on Asian and North African Studies, University of Hong Kong, 1993.

  “World Death Rate Holding Steady at 100 Percent.” The Onion, January 22, 1997.

  6. RAISING PIGS

  “Bankruptcy and Burials: The Rising Cost of Ghana’s Funerals.” The Economist, May 24, 2007.

  Cohen, Adam. “A New Kind of Memorial for the Internet Age.” The New York Times, July 25, 2009.

  Comila, Felipe S. “The Disappearing Dap-ay: Coping with Change in Sagada.” In The Road to Empowerment: Strengthening the Indigenous Peoples Rights Act. Volume 2. Edited by Yasmin D. Arquiza. Geneva: International Labour Organization, in partnership with the United Nations Development Programme, the National Commission on Indigenous Peoples, and the New Zealand Agency for International Development, 2007.

  De Witte, Marleen. “Money and Death: Funeral Business in Asante, Ghana.” Africa 73 (2003).

  Fison, Lorimer. Tales from Old Fiji. London: Alexander Moring Ltd., The De la More Press, 1907.

  Frazer, J. G. The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead. Volume 1. London: Macmillan, 1913.

  Garces-Foley, Kathleen, and Justin S. Holcomb. “Contemporary American Funerals.” In Personalizing Tradition in Death and Religion in a Changing World. Edited by Kathleen Garces-Foley. New York: M. E. Sharpe, 2006.

  Greenberg, Blu. How to Run a Traditional Jewish Household. New York: Fireside, 1985.

  Hunt, Melinda, and Joel Sternfeld. Hart Island. Zurich: Scalo Publishers, 1998.

  Jalland, Pat. Death in the Victorian Family. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.

  Klinenberg, Eric. Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002.

  Leland, John. “It’s My Funeral and I’ll Serve Ice Cream if I Want To.” The New York Times, July 20, 2006.

  Lysaght, Patricia. “Hospitality at Wakes and Funerals in Ireland from the Seventeenth to the Nineteenth Century: Some Evidence from the Written Record.” Folklore 114, no. 3 (December 2003).

  O’Connell, Brian. “Lifting the Lid on Irish Wakes.” Irish Times, March 25, 2009.

  Piluden-Omengan, Dinah Elma. Death and Beyond: Death & Burial Rituals & Other Practices & Beliefs of the Igorots of Sagada, Mountain Province, Philippines. Quezon City: Giraffe Books, 2004.

  Post, Emily. Etiquette in Society, in Business, in Politics, and at Home. New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1922.

  Scott, William Henry. “An Engineer’s Dream: John Staunton and the Mission of St. Mary the Virgin, Sagada.” In Studies in Philippine Church History. Edited by Gerald H. Anderson. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1969.

  Van der Geest, Sjaak. “Between Death and Funeral: Mortuaries and the Exploitation of Liminality in Kwahu, Ghana.” Africa: The Journal of the International African Institute 76, no. 4 (2006).

  Williamson, Robert W. The Mafulu Mountain People of British New Guinea. London: Macmillan, 1912.

  7. FOREIGN FIELDS

  Bray, Alan. The Friend. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003.

  Brooke, Rupert. “The Soldier” (1914). In The Poetical Works of Rupert Brooke. Edited by Geoffrey Keynes. London: Faber & Faber, 1946.

  Buck, Sir Edward John. Simla, Past and Present. Calcutta: Thacker, Spink & Co., 1904.

  The Calcutta Review 31 (1858).

  Chaker, Anne Marie. “Shipping News: How Funeral Directors Earn Free Flights.” Wall Street Journal, May 17, 2005.

  Deloria, Vine, Jr. Custer Died for Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto (Civilization of the American Indian). New York: Macmillan, 1969.

  Dunlap, David W. “Dig Unearths Early Black Burial Ground.” New York Times, October 9, 1991.

  “Eternity with Marilyn Monroe Goes Back on Auction Block.” Reuters, October 15, 2009.

  A History of the City of Newark: Embracing Practically Two and a Half Centuries. Volume 2. New York, Chicago: The Lewis Historical Publishing Co., 1913.

  Holmes and Co. The Bengal Obituary, or, A Record to Perpetuate the Memory of Departed Worth. London and Calcutta: W. Thacker & Co., 1851.

  Horrox, Rosemary. Fifteenth-Century Attitudes: Perceptions of Society in Late Medieval England. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997.

  Jacobs, Andrew. “Jewish Newark’s Urban Pioneers Rest Uneasily.” New York Times, October 15, 2000.

  Jordan, Rosan Augusta, and Frank de Caro, curators and eds. British Voices from South-East Asia. Electronic exhibit reproducing an exhibition held in Hill Memorial Library at Louisiana State University, 1996.

  Kipling, Rudyard. The City of Dreadful Night. New York: Alex Grosset & Co., 1899.

  Longworth, Philip. The Unending Vigil: The History of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. S. Yorkshire: Leo Cooper, Barnsley, 2003.

  Lopez, Elias. “Nameless Are Memorialized at Old African Burial Site.” New York Times, October 2, 2007.

  Moodie, Susanna. Roughing It in the Bush. London: Richard Bentley, 1852.

  Nelson, Judy. “The Final Journey Home: Chinese Burial Practices in Spokane.” The Pacific Northwest Forum 6, no. 1 (Winter–Spring 1993).

  Slackman, Michael. “In a New Age, Bahrain Struggles to Honor the Dead While Serving the Living.” The New York Times, September 18, 2009.

  Smiley, Lauren. “Exporting the Dead.” SF Weekly, January 21, 2009.

  Smith, Claire, and Hans Martin Wobst. Indigenous Archaeologies: Decolonizing Theory and Practice. New York: Routledg
e, 2005.

  Thomas, David Hurst. Skull Wars: Kennewick Man, Archaeology, and the Battle for Native American Identity. New York: Basic Books, 2000.

  “Woman Wins Legal Battle to Be Buried with Her Lover.” Daily Mail, January 31, 2009.

  Yalom, Marilyn. The American Resting Place: 400 Years of History Through Our Cemeteries and Burial Grounds. New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2008.

  Yung, Judy, Gordon H. Chang, and Him Mark Lai, eds. Chinese American Voices: From the Gold Rush to the Present. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006.

  8. DEM BONES

  Andrews, William. Old Church Lore. London: The Hull Press, 1891.

  Bondeson, Jan. Buried Alive: The Terrifying History of Our Most Primal Fear. New York: Norton, 2002.

  Danforth, Loring M. The Death Rituals of Rural Greece, photography by Alexander Tsiaras. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1982.

  Favazza, Armando R. Bodies under Siege: Self-mutilation and Body Modification in Culture and Psychiatry. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996.

  Golden, Tim. “Salvador Skeletons Confirm Reports of Massacre in 1981.” New York Times, October 22, 1992.

  Green, James W. Beyond the Good Death: The Anthropology of Modern Dying. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008.

  Gregorian, Dareh. “9/11 Victim Identified.” New York Post, April 2, 2009.

  Higgins, Kathleen. “Death and the Skeleton.” In Death and Philosophy. Edited by J. E. Malpas and Robert C. Solomon. London: Routledge, 1999.

  Hoyt, Mike. “The Mozote Massacre: It Was the Reporters’ Word Against the Government’s.” Columbia Journalism Review 31 (January–February 1993).

  Kulich, Jan. The Ossuary: Kutná Hora—Sedlec (guide leaflet). Gloriet Publishing House.

  Lazure, Guy. “Possessing the Sacred: Monarchy and Identity in Philip II’s Relic Collection at the Escorial.” Renaissance Quarterly 60, no. 1 (2007).

  Muldoon, James. Varieties of Religious Conversion in the Middle Ages. Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 1997.

  Quigley, Christine. Skulls and Skeletons: Human Bone Collections and Accumulations. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2001.

  “Saint’s Remains Arrive for Tour.” BBC News, September 15, 2009.

  Sherrow, Victoria. Encyclopedia of Hair: A Cultural History. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2006.

  Sheumaker, Helen. Love Entwined: The Curious History of Hairwork in America. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007.

  Smith, A. J. (contributor). The Complete English Poems. London: Penguin Books, 1996.

  Turner, Mark. The Artful Mind: Cognitive Science and the Riddle of Human Creativity. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006.

  Wills, Gary. Venice: The Lion City: The Religion of Empire. New York: Washington Square Press, 2002.

  9. HELLO AGAIN

  Binski, Paul. Medieval Death: Ritual and Representation. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1996.

  Boccaccio, Giovanni. The Decameron. Translated by John Payne. Whitefish, MT: Kessinger Publishing, 2003.

  Brandes, Stanley. “Iconography in Mexico’s Day of the Dead: Origins and Meaning.” Ethnohistory 45 (1998).

  ______. Skulls to the Living, Bread to the Dead: The Day of the Dead in Mexico and Beyond. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 2006.

  Cantor, Norman F. In the Wake of the Plague: The Black Death and the World It Made. New York: Harper Perennial, 2002.

  Carmichael, Elizabeth, and Chloë Sayer. The Skeleton at the Feast: The Day of the Dead in Mexico. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1991.

  Haley, Shawn D., and Curt Fukuda. Day of the Dead: When Two Worlds Meet in Oaxaca. Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2004.

  “Hirst’s Diamond-Encrusted Skull Goes to Unknown Investors for £50m.” The Times, August 31, 2007.

  Huizinga, Johan. The Waning of the Middle Ages. Mineola, NY: Dover Publications, 1998.

  Norget, Kristin. Days of Death, Days of Life: Ritual in the Popular Culture of Oaxaca. New York: Columbia University Press, 2006.

  Oosterwijk, Sophie. “Food for Worms—Food for Thought: The Appearance and Interpretation of the ‘Verminous’ Cadaver in Britain and Europe.” Church Monuments XX (2005).

  ______. “Of Dead Kings, Dukes and Constables: The Historical Context of the Danse Macabre in Late Medieval Paris.” Journal of the British Archaeological Association 161 (2008).

  Stannard, David E. American Holocaust: The Conquest of the New World. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.

  Tuchman, Barbara Wertheim. A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century. New York: Ballantine Books, 1987.

  10. THE FINAL CHAPTER

  Dent, Alan, ed. Bernard Shaw and Mrs. Patrick Campbell: Their Correspondence. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1952.

  Mydans, Carl. “By a General’s Friend: Memento of 25 Years.” Life, April 17, 1964.

  Myers, Alyse. “I’m Honoring the Dead (and Look at These Great Seats).” The New York Times, July 5, 2009.

  Further Information

  More stories, images, resources, Web links, and other information will be available on my Web site, www.makinganexit.net

  Index

  The index that appeared in the print version of this title does not match the pages in your eBook. Please use the search function on your eReading device to search for terms of interest. For your reference, the terms that appear in the print index are listed below.

  A. J. Wakeley Funeral Service

  AARP

  Acton, Harold

  adaptive-reuse coffin

  Adler, Felix

  Adotey, Eric Kpakpo

  Aerial Missions

  An Affair to Remember

  Africa. See also Ghana

  African-Americans

  afterlife

  behavior for happy

  belief survey

  Bismarck’s belief in

  cultural beliefs in

  death rites centered on

  double burials and

  eternal

  preventing spirits’ return from

  spiritualism evidence of

  taking possessions into

  Agung Suyasa, Tjokorda Gde

  airline industry

  Alastair (Fa’s brother)

  Alba de Tormes convent

  Albert (prince)

  Ali Akbar (Husayn’s commander)

  alkaline hydrolysis

  All Saints’ Day

  All Souls’ Day

  Allen, Woody

  altars for Day of the Dead

  Amaya, Rufina

  American Gothic (Wood)

  The American Way of Death (Mitford)

  The American Way of Death Revisited (Mitford)

  Amir Chakhmagh

  ancestors

  Andean cult of the dead

  Anderson, Dood

  Anderson, Jim

  Anglo-Saxon kings

  Annie Hall

  Anthony (Sam’s younger brother)

  Archaeological Resources Protection Act

  Argentine Forensic Anthropology (EAAF)

  Ariès, Philippe

  Arlington National Cemetery

  art mementos

  Ascension Thursday

  Ashanti funeral party

  ashes. See also remains

  as calcium phosphate

  Fa’s

  fireworks display of

  lockets containing

  scattering of

  weight of

  Ashura

  Atacama Desert (Chile)

  atheism

  Auden, W. H.

  Ayatollah Khomeini

  Aztec tradition

  Baba Tahir

  badés (pagoda-shaped towers)

  bagua (Chinese symbol)

  Bahrain

  Baines, Thomas

  Bali. See also cremation ceremonies, Balinese; Pelebon

  crying at cremation ceremonies

  embalming of nobles in

  mourning clothes in

 
religious history of

  soul regeneration in

  temporary burials in

  Bangyay, Siegrid

  Baret, John

  Barker, Kit

  basal tears

  basketball funerals

  Bateson, George

  Bateson’s Belfry

  Batnag, Mrs., funeral of

  Battle of Karbala

  Battle of Waterloo

  baya-o (tribal dirge)

  Beat Repatriation Inequality Together (BRIT)

  Beautiful Memory Picture

  Becker, Ernest

  Beckett, Samuel

  Bentham, Jeremy

  Beowulf

  Berawan communities in Borneo

  Bernini

  Berwald, Angie

  bicycles, ghost

  Bismarck, Otto von

  Black Death

  black putrefaction

  Blair, Tony

  bloating, corpse

  Boccaccio, Giovanni

  Body Worlds

  bones, human

  chandelier of

  composition of

  creative displays of

  digging up and storing

  El Mozote

  famadihana dance with

  mineral component of

  pyramids of

  ritual uses of

  tales told by

  Bonner, Raymond

  Borneo

  Bosnia-Herzegovina

  Bradbury, Mary

  Bray, Alan

  Brazil

  bride effigies

  BRIT. See Beat Repatriation Inequality Together

  Britain

  coffin designs in

  first cremation in

  Roman occupation of

  British empire

  British Humanist Association

  British Museum

  British stoicism

  Bronze Age burial mounds in Bahrain

  Brooke, Rupert

  brother, Fa’s

  Buddha

  Bulgarian choral singers

  bulls, Pelebon ceremonial

  burials. See also repatriation; tombs

  away from home

  clothes for

  in colonial India

  containers for

  diaspora

  double

  exhumation

  family

  family conflict over

  Fa’s location for

  fear of live

  fetal position

  green

  Hong Kong’s space shortage for

  locations for

 

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