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"Mitfordis funny and unforgiving book is the greatest memento mori we're prone to get.  It must certanly be updated and reissued each decade for the religious health."--The Brand New York Overview of BooksOnly the scathing humor and looking intellect of Jessica Mitford might change a show of the American funeral industry right into a book that's at the same time dangerous serious and side-splittingly funny. When first released in 1963 this milestone of undercover writing became a runaway best-seller and led to regulation to safeguard grieving people in the dishonest sales practices of these in "the depressing trade."Right before her death in 1996, Mitford completely revised and updated her classic research. The American Method of Death Revisited affects new developments, such as the achievement of the occupationis lobbyists in Washington, overpriced cremation expenses, the telemarketing of pay-in-progress plots, and the results of monopolies in a death-care market today dominated by international companies. Using its hard nosed customer activism and a satiric perspective out-of Evelyn Waugh's novel The Family Member, The American Method of Death Revisited won't neglect to inform, delight, and disrupt.