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Quotation of the Day for January 18, 2012"A new mythology, essential to the twentieth-century American funeral rite has grown up--or rather has been built up step by step--to justify the peculiar customs surrounding the disposal of our dead... Gradually, almost imperceptibly, over the years the funeral men have constructed their own grotesque cloud-cuckooland where the trappings of Gracious Living are transformed, as in a nightmare, into the trappings of Gracious Dying..." - Jessica Mitford, from The American Way Of Death. Submitted by: Terry Labach Jan. 10, 2012  |
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