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Podcast: Path 11 Podcast
Episode: The Green Reaper: Memoirs of an Eco-Mortician with Elizabeth Fournier
Description: The Green Reaper: Memoirs of an Eco-Mortician (2017). In her memoir, Elizabeth Fournier writes about her calling to the funeral industry, and how her early struggles helped shape her life ministry: taking care of the dead and preparing more meaningful burials. The Green Burial guidebook: Everything You Need to Plan an Affordable, Environmentally Friendly Burial (2018). Despite the widespread attention garnered by Jessica Mitford's 1963 exposé of the funeral industry, The American Way of Death, the American way of death still includes average funeral expenses of between $8,000 and $12,000. What's more, every year conventional burials in t...