Precis: I would argue that death is a natural part of life. We should treat it and see it that way, as part of the cycle of life. Deaths and burials should be natural and meaningful as a part of letting go. Some ways you can make burials natural are by having sea burials which are an alternative to the traditional funeral.
Quotes:
"Unlike most standard funerals back on land, sea scatterings rarely take on the atmosphere of formal affairs." (80)
"At that moment I know that this is really the end, and that I'm going to miss two people who were very important to me in my life, we're finalizing the end of their lives."(81)
"I really don"t know why it is that all of us are so committed to the sea...We are tied to the ocean, and when we go back to the sea-whether it is to sail or to watch it-we are going back from whence we came." (101)
"When you allow the funeral director to whisk away a body, you miss out on the rewards that come from having a home funeral." (105)
The book gives a lot of information on the alternative to a traditional funeral. Ways to make burials as a natural process. It gives stories of other people's burials to distinguish the differences between the way they chose to bury their dead vs the dominant social practice of funerals.
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