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Business of Death animation

David Pescovitz at 11:16 am Wed, Oct 31, 2007

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Embalmdeath

Deathstatgood

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

David Pescovitz is Boing Boing's co-editor/managing partner. He's also a research director at Institute for the Future. On Instagram, he's @pesco.

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Kevitivity

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

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

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

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…
ivan256

Makes me want to play some Funeral Quest.
tsol

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