Celebrating life and death through building your own coffin

A group of women in the United States are advocating for the adoption and acceptance of home funerals, to encourage greater participation by families to partake in the funeral process. For the many in our midst who have grown accustomed to thinking about the dead in a detached and clinical way, home funerals pave the way for our care for our loved ones to continue after their death.


The New Republic, “Who owns the dead”, 25 June 2015.

To read more: https://newrepublic.com/article/122130/who-owns-dead