Midwiving Death: Mainers Take Matters of Death Into Their Own Hands

Year 2011

Creator Molly Jean Bennett

Contributor Sujie Zhu

Story type Radio

Town Limington

County York

Description

In order to offer a practical way to bury loved ones, Cedar Brook Burial Ground greatly reduces the cost of an average funeral, causing people in Maine to rethink funeral traditions. Molly Jean Bennett investigates how this type of burial functions, and the radical topic of home funerals by speaking to two Mainers who buried a loved one on their own terms.

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