Larger Than Life by Alison Kent
By the time Nate Fisher was laid to rest in a woodland grave sans coffin in the final season of Six Feet Under, Americans all across the country were starting to look outside the box when death came calling. Grave Matters follows families who found in green burial a more natural, more economic, and ultimately more meaningful alternative to the tired and toxic send-off on offer at the local funeral parlor. Eschewing chemical embalming and fancy caskets, elaborate and costly funerals, they have embraced a range of natural options, new and old, that are redefining a better American way of death. Environmental journalist Mark Harris examines this new green burial underground, leading you into natural cemeteries and domestic graveyards, taking you aboard boats from which ashes and memorial reef balls are cast into the sea. He follows a family that conducts a home funeral, one that delivers a loved one to the crematory, and another that hires a carpenter to build a pine coffin. In the morbidly fascinating tradition of Stiff, Grave Matters details the embalming process and the environmental aftermath of the standard funeral. Harris also traces the history of burial in America, from frontier cemeteries to the billion-dollar business it is today, reporting on real families who opted for more simple, natural returns. For readers who want to follow the examples of these families and, literally, give back from the grave, appendices detail everything you need to know, from exact costs and laws to natural burial providers and their contact information.Alison Kent, a native Texan, sold one of her fifty published works live on the Isn't It Romantic? show. Call Me, the resulting novel, was a Romantic Times Best First Series Novel finalist. Her 2005 Kensington Brava publication, The Beach Alibi, earned her a national Quill Award nomination. Striptease, from her popular gIRL-gEAR series, was nominated for an RT Reviewer's Choice Award, and No Boundaries, from her 2009 novel, was a Cosmopolitan Red Hot Read. Alison is also the author of The Complete Idiot's Guide to Writing Erotic Romance (The Complete Idiot's Guide to Writing Erotic Romance).
If there's a better job out there than writing, Alison doesn't want to know about it because she's quite content putting pen to paper in her Texas backyard. She shares her home with her petroleum geologist husband, three rescue dogs (one of whom survived Hurricane Katrina), and a colony of wild cats.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780758211125 |
| ISBN 10 | 0758211120 |
| Title | Larger Than Life |
| Author | Alison Kent |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Kensington Publishing |
| Year published | 2005-06-07 |
| Number of pages | 320 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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