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The American Resting Place: 400 Years of History Through Our Cemeteries and Burial Grounds
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by Marilyn Yalom and Reid S. Yalom
Sales Rank: 15759
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List Price: $30.00
$19.80
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on 9-17-2008.
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Features
Cover Type: Hard Cover with 352 pages
Published by: Houghton MifflinEdition: 1st Edition May 15, 2008
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 0618624279
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0618624270
Book Dimensions:
8.9 x 7.2 x 1.3 inches
Weighs: 1.7 pounds
Reader Reviews
Creepy to say, but I have always loved cemeteries. They demand a certain soft-spoken respect and carefull treading about, lest one step on a stone. I must have an undertaker or gravedigger in the bloodline. But I found that "The American Resting Place" took all the ghoulish fun out of death. I started at the end, at the chapter devoted to bodily disposal practices in the future. The chapter covered green burials, the increasing number of cremations and the focus on making funerals more individual. But while this tack could have led to all sorts of fascinating harbors, it did not. One thread, showing how some Catholic parishes are discouraging lay eulogies, might have kick off a few sparks. But this thread was laid, ever so gently, to rest with the others. Perhaps it was the disinterested tone of the book that I found off-putting. America's founders had an all-encompassing terror of death and damnation -- those weird tombstone death's heads were intended to frighten the living into a life of rectitude. But Yalom takes a rather distanced view of the whole phenomenon of theology, leeching all the life out of the study of death. If it doesn't matter what happens to our souls after we die, why fuss so much with the remains? I plowed my way dutifully through the first third of the book and came to a dead stop. Lord knows if my interest will ever be resurrected. For now, "The American Resting Place" itself rests in peace, buried in the pile of books by my bed.
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