From Dust to Ashes: Cremation and the British Way of Death

by Peter C. Jupp

Seventy per cent of British families now choose cremation for their funerals, a rapid change in traditional death customs. This is the first book to investigate why cremation replaced burial. It examines the political, religious, economic and social reasons behind personal choice and sets them in a European context. This study is doubly timely with the expanding scholarly interest in death studies, and the new media interest in the British way of death.

250 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2006

Reviews

[Geof Sage · Rating 4 out of 5]

"The funeral is the public recognition of a death."