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.Such revelry would have irked Cotton Mather, butMitford wouldn’t have minded it in the least.Notes to Pages 182–19024937.On this new countercultural style, see Thomas Frank, The Conquest ofCool: Business Culture, Counterculture, and the Rise of Hip Consumerism(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997).38.Consumer Reports, Funerals: Consumers’ Last Rights, 176.39.This account is culled from these sources: Thomas E.Kelley, “Grief forJohn Lennon Neared Mass Hysteria,” AFD (February 1981) 24–26, 70; “YokoOno Asks Mourners to Give to a Foundation Lennon Favored,” Times (De-cember 10, 1980) 2.7; “”Beatles’ Songs Played in Memory of Lennon,” Times(December 10, 1980) 2.7; Paul L.Montgomery, “Suspect in Lennon’s Slaying IsPut under Suicide Watch,” Times (December 11, 1980) 2.3; Clyde Haberman,“Silent Tribute to Lennon’s Memory Is Observed throughout the World,” Times(December 15, 1980) 1, 2.8; Yoko Ono Lennon, “In Gratitude,” Times (Janu-ary 18, 1981) 4.24.7.Contemporary Ways of Cremation1.Stephen Prothero, “Timothy Leary is Dead and Well and Blasting throughOuter Space,” Salon, April 22, 1997 (http://www.salonmagazine.com/april97/news/newsreal970422.html, August 25, 1999).2.Untitled broadside obtained from Thomas E.Scanlin of Dahlonega,Georgia.3.Billy Graham, “Cremation: My Answer” (http://www.capitalfuneral.com/csc/rel/index.html, May 20, 1999).4.Cremation Association of North America, “1999 Data and Projections tothe Year 2010” (CANA, 2000 photocopy).CANA’s “1996/97 Cremation Con-tainer, Disposition, and Service Survey” found that 58% of the Americans cre-mated in 1996 were Protestant, 26% Catholic, 11% Buddhist, 3% Jewish, and2% Hindu.A comparison of these data with U.S.demographics indicates thatCatholics, Protestants, and women were being cremated at roughly the samerate as the overall U.S.population while Buddhists and Hindus were far morelikely than the average American to be cremated.For a useful overview of theliterature on the demography of cremation, see “Who Chooses Cremation?”(http://www.flash.net/~leimer/cremate3.html, August 18, 1999).5.The Wirthlin Group, 1995 Study of American Attitudes toward Rituali-zation and Memorialization (McLean, Va.: The Wirthlin Group, 1995) 19;Grayson predictions in “Plotting the Future in Funeral Service,” FM 5.37 (Sep-tember 23, 1996) 3; Jack Springer interview (June 1997).6.“Human Ashes Found in Storage,” Boston Globe (June 7, 1997) A16;“Man Tied to Remains Is Reported a Suicide,” Boston Globe (June 26, 1997)A31; “Ashes to Ashes: Funeral Homes Face Lawsuit for Use of Bogus ScatteringService,” FM 6.24 (June 23, 1997) 1–3.7.Archpriest Victor Potapov, “Cremation: Earth Thou Art and unto EarthShalt Thou Return” (http://www.stjohndc.org/homilies/homcremt.htm, August17, 1999); Michael P.Horban, “Cremation or Burial?” Pentecostal Evangel(May 29, 1994) 7; Bruce L.Olsen, “Cremation,” in Encyclopedia of Mor-250Notes to Pages 191–195monism, ed.Daniel H.Ludlow (New York: Macmillan, 1992), quoted inwww.mormons.org/daily/health/Cremation_EOM.htm (August 26, 1999);“Cremation Earns a Following,” Atlanta Journal-Constitution (October 22,1989) C6.The cremation rates appear in Cremation Association of NorthAmerica, “1998 Data and Projections to the Year 2010” (1999).On Jewish cre-mation, see the web site of Temple Akiba of Culver City, California:http://www.shamash.org/reform/uahc/congs/ca/ca008/cremate.html (August 26,1999).8.Lawrence Jones interview (July 1997).The surveys are: Richard A.Kalishand David K.Reynolds, Death and Ethnicity: A Psychocultural Study (Farming-dale, N.Y.: Baywood Publishing, 1981); Wirthlin Group, 1995 Study; CANA,“1996/97 Cremation Container, Disposition, and Service Survey” (1999).Thelast survey found that, of the Americans cremated in 1996, 6% were AfricanAmerican and 3% Hispanic.Since Blacks constituted about 12% of the U.S.population and Hispanics about 9%, those two groups were two and three timesless likely, respectively, to be cremated than the average American.9.National Conference of Catholic Bishops, Order Of Christian Funerals,appendix 2: Cremation (Totowa, N.J,: Catholic Book Publishing Co., 1997) 6.10.Bud Noakes, “The Future of the Traditional Funeral,” MM 64.11 (No-vember 1977) 17.11.Tom Fisher, “How Young People Feel about Cremation: Is American Fu-neral Service Ready?” MM 68.3 (March 1981) 24; National Funeral DirectorsAssociation, Tradition in Transition: The Report of the Twenty-First CenturyCommittee of the National Funeral Directors Association (NFDA, 1981) 16.12.“Attracting Cremation Business—and Making It More Profitable,” FM(October 14, 1996) 5.13.“The Carpers’ Club,” Daily Graphic (May 2, 1874) 474.14.Michael W.Kubasak, Cremation and the Funeral Director: SuccessfullyMeeting the Challenge (Malibu, Calif.: Avalon Press, 1990) 136, 5, 3, 15, 10.15.Michael Kubasak interview (June 1997).16.“Rocket Cremation Dollars with Independent Showroom,” FSI 20.44(November 20, 1995) 3–4.17 [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]