American+Afterlife

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American Afterlife by Kate Sweeney provides a look into how Americans view and deal with death ranging from the days prior during, and after death.Sweeney reminds us that death occurs in n the three phases and that death has change tremendously over the last decade. Sweeney also gives insight to how burials were actually performed during the 1800s and how they are completely different from today.

This book will help me with my paper by incorporating new concepts that I had never even considered was the "American Way" of doing things with death. This book provides alternatives ways of grieving and dealing with grief in positive ways. Death in the three phases and how everyone grieves in different ways. Sweeney also looks at different ways that funerals have been done from the early 1800s to modern days.