Final rights: reclaiming the American way of death

Part I: Bodies, business, and traditions for saying goodbye. Circling the hearses

Tricks of the funeral trade

Caskets, other boxes, memorials, and markers

Embalming : a beautiful memory picture?

Cemeteries : for-profit and non-profit

Preneed sales : it's not "all taken care of"

Body parts : big business, little regulation

Federal Trade Commission : a fickle consumer ally

Filing an effective complaint : and what not to do

Mortuary education : a dead end

Home funerals : a returning tradition

Green burial : what they used to just call "burial"

Part II: Necessary information for consumers [by state].