Business of Death animation

Posted by David Pescovitz, October 31, 2007 11:16 AM | permalink

Alejandro Cardenas and Daniel Cardenas were commissioned by GOOD Magazine to create this terrific animation presenting curious facts about the death industry. Link

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#1 posted by ivan256 , October 31, 2007 12:04 PM

Makes me want to play some Funeral Quest.

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#2 posted by Chris

, October 31, 2007 2:44 PM

There was a great episode of Frontline about this on PBS last night.

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#3 posted by Anonymous , October 31, 2007 3:00 PM

Cartoon redeems itself by mentioning Mitford's "The American Way of Death". Unfortunately nothing seems to have changed in over 40 years since that was published...

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#4 posted by jimh , October 31, 2007 5:30 PM

This animation is teh awesome! I really like the Anubis characters. Anubii?

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#5 posted by tsol , October 31, 2007 7:34 PM

There was a great book written by Jessica Mitford about this only 44 years ago!

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#6 posted by Kevitivity

, November 1, 2007 10:40 AM

For the most part, embalming is completely useless, unless you really need the body to be on display for a while, etc.