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

Greave Matters is a book about the embalming of peoples love ones, and goes in depth about the effects of an average burial, and gives readers insights about green burial. This book isn’t trying to change peoples minds on how to embalm themselves or their love ones when they pass away, it’s sole purpose is to inform people, and hopefully change the way people normally do things.

Grave Matters by Mark Davis is a book about the business of the embalming of the deceased. When I pre read the book at first I thought it was interesting because of the many facts it gave about funerals, the price, the materials, its affect on the environment, etc. At first I thought the first chapter would be a bit like the Omnivores Dilemma where it gave a short catchy story, than gave a lot of good facts, and points, but instead Grave Matters, gives personal stories, which is relevant to know, but to me is a bit dramatic. For example the first chapter was about this couple who lost their 18 year old daughter and all this is being explained in just three sentences, so when pre reading learning all these facts, you expect to see more interesting facts but instead, you get hit with a depressing story. This book like every other book we’ve read this year for all our units gives a “nicer” alternative to something that’s because nightmarish and creepy, or exploits people to make money.