
Overview
What is old is often new again. Most funerals today are part of a multimillion-dollar industry run by professionals. This increased reliance on mortuaries has alienated Americans from life's only inevitability — death. A Family Undertaking explores the growing home funeral movement by following several families in their most intimate moments as they reclaim the end of life, forgoing a typical mortuary funeral to care for their loved ones at home. Far from being a radical innovation, keeping funeral rites in the family or among friends is exactly how death was handled for most of pre-20th century America. Prior to the Civil War, caring for and preparing the dead for burial on family farms or in local cemeteries was both a domestic skill and a family responsibility.
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17 - 2War Feels Like War July 06, 2004
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17 - 3Thirst July 13, 2004
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17 - 4Last Man Standing: Politics---Texas Style July 20, 2004
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17 - 5A Family Undertaking August 03, 2004
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17 - 7Every Mother's Son August 17, 2004
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17 - 6Speedo: A Demolition Derby Love Story August 24, 2004
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17 - 8Freedom Machines September 14, 2004
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17 - 9A Panther in Africa September 21, 2004
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17 - 10Chisholm '72 February 07, 2005
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17 - 12Big Enough June 28, 2005
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17 - 11The Education of Shelby Knox June 21, 2005
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17 - 16Episode 16 September 21, 2004
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17 - 13Lost Boys of Sudan September 28, 2004
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17 - 15Episode 15 June 29, 2004
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17 - 14Wattstax September 07, 2004