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Just Enough to Put Him Away Decent - Death Care, Life Extension, and the Making of a Healthier South, 1900-1955 (Hardcover)
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Just Enough to Put Him Away Decent - Death Care, Life Extension, and the Making of a Healthier South, 1900-1955 (Hardcover)
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As the twentieth century began, Black and white southerners alike
dealt with low life expectancy and poor healthcare in a region
synonymous with early death. But the modernization of death care by
a diverse group of actors changed not only death rituals but
fundamental ideas about health and wellness. Kristine McCusker
charts the dramatic transformation that took place when southerners
in particular and Americans in general changed their thinking about
when one should die, how that death could occur, and what decent
burial really means. As she shows, death care evolved from being a
community act to a commercial one where purchasing a purple coffin
and hearse ride to the cemetery became a political statement and
the norm. That evolution also required interactions between perfect
strangers, especially during the world wars as families searched
for their missing soldiers. In either case, being put away decent,
as southerners called burial, came to mean something fundamentally
different in 1955 than it had just fifty years earlier.
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