HW 50 - First Third of Care-of-the-Dead Book Post

Precis:       
        There are many alternatives on how to want to care for the dead. For example Jenny Johnson parents decided to give her a burial (where her grandmother was also buried). One october morning at nine o clock the parents of Jenny Johnson left the hospital to make arrangements for the burial. The parents soon found out the cost of the casket (casket being $4,500 alone) and everything else they want to do for Jenny's funeral. Once that got out of the way the embalming of Jenny Johnson began, in order to make her look more presentable and soon after the actual funeral started, were Jenny's family members attended. Everyone in that room was sad, especially the parents who missed there beloved Jenny.
Quotes:
"Embolming is a three stage process of preserving a corpse for viewing
"The few times he's overfilled lips, Fielding has had to cut them open with a scalpel, scrape out access builder and then glue the lips back together."
"Prices for refrigeration vary widely, anywhere from $50 a day to many hundereds of dollars, depending on the willingness of the funeral home."
"No federal law requires that a body be emblamed."
"About half of all states require that a body be preserved if not buried or cremated within a few days of death, but permit methods of preservation other than embalming."
Analytical paragraph:
        Theis book has given me alot of insight. For example i didnt know that caskets cost so much, and I didn't know that you had to pay daily to keep a body refrigerated. This book has made me think about, if there is anything in this country that the governemnt doesn't try to control what you do. However the main thoguht that this book gives me is, if cremations or burials are the better way to go. "Maybe burials are better than cremations in the sense that it's more green and causes less pollution in the air." However I imagine cremations not costing as much as burials.