Image: Moles Funeral Home
An Illustrated lecture by funeral director Amy Cunningham
Date: Thursday, November 7
Time: 8:00 PM
Admission: $8
Presented by Morbid Anatomy
Each year in the U.S., the death care industry buries enough formaldehyde to fill eight Olympic sized swimming pools, enough metal in caskets form to rebuild the Golden Gate Bridge, and enough concrete in burial vaults to construct a two-lane highway running halfway across the country. While our cemeteries are rich with national and local histories, natural habitats and remembrances of the dead, they’re also a blazing locus of waste and pollution.
In tonight’s illustrated lecture, funeral director Amy Cunningham will share the history of American death practices from Victorian family-centric rituals to contemporary ideas of the “green cemetery,” a grassroots movement dedicated to the development of ecologically responsible and meaningful end-of-life rituals.
Amy Cunningham is a New York licensed funeral director and celebrant who specializes in helping families plan sustainable end-of-life rituals. A former magazine journalist, she maintains a blog called TheInspiredFuneral.com.