The American Way of Death Casts Its Shadow East
by Lee Hall
Famously exposing the avarice of the U.S. funeral industry, Jessica Mitford’s book The American Way of Death (1963) confronted death and its attendant rituals, removing the shroud of taboo. For today’s military managers, talk of death is taboo once again. Military funerals and coffins have, for as long as possible, been kept out of public view. Even less has come to light about the grief of Afghanistan and Iraq, where ordinary people deal with death as part of their everyday business....
http://www.dissidentvoice.org/May05/Hall0517.htm
Famously exposing the avarice of the U.S. funeral industry, Jessica Mitford’s book The American Way of Death (1963) confronted death and its attendant rituals, removing the shroud of taboo. For today’s military managers, talk of death is taboo once again. Military funerals and coffins have, for as long as possible, been kept out of public view. Even less has come to light about the grief of Afghanistan and Iraq, where ordinary people deal with death as part of their everyday business....
http://www.dissidentvoice.org/May05/Hall0517.htm
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