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The Benefit of Organic Burial Pods
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Traditional burials are becoming a problem because with the knowledge of perfected and modernized burials, we could save lives, improve our planet, and increase our life span here on earth. Money, values, and morals are the causes of this problem. People don 't have the resources to bury their dead the way they wish to and modernizing burials is quite expensive technology. Also, people around the world have different values and morals to bury their deceased and sudden change does not come easy. This problem has remained old fashioned and unsolved because it is tightly connected with people’s beliefs, emotions, family tension emerges, and religious conflicts arise. Moreover,
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Cremation, of Course." by Tyler Mathisen. Another resource is a scientific journal called "Mortality Patterns among Embalmers." and written by Judy Walrath and Joseph F. Fraumeni. I have also quoted from a book called " Grave Matters: A Journey through the Modern Funeral Industry to a Natural Way of Burial " written by the Stetson University graduate and member of the Society of Environmental Journalists, Mark Harris. In addition, I quoted Amy Biegelsen from her article called “America’s Looming Burial Crisis”. My last resource I used was another article from The New York Times called "City Cemeteries Face Gridlock." written by a reporter named Marc Santora. I plan to use information from the Federal Trade Commission and more statistical based resources. These resources will be more useful for learning about my topic because this research will show the public how much a funeral is worth and what services are …show more content…
"America 's Looming Burial Crisis." CityLab. N.p., 31 Oct. 2012. Web. 29 Jan. 2016.
• Harris, Mark. "Chapter 2 "After the Burial"" Grave Matters: A Journey through the Modern Funeral Industry to a Natural Way of Burial. New York: Scribner, 2007. N. pag. Print.
• Mathisen, Tyler. "The Hot Trend in Funeral Business? Cremation, of Course." Http://www.cnbc.com/. N.p., 22 Jan. 2013. Web. 26 Jan. 2016.
• Santora, Marc. "City Cemeteries Face Gridlock." The New York Times 13 Aug. 2010: 1-5. Web. .
• Walrath, Judy, and Joseph F. Fraumeni. "Mortality Patterns among Embalmers." International Journal of Cancer Int. J. Cancer 31.4 (1983): 407-11.

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