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Bodies and ceremonies: is the UK funeral industry still fit for purpose?

Tony WalterCentre for Death & Society, Social & Policy Sciences, University of Bath, Bath, UKCorrespondence[email protected]
Pages 194-208 | Published online: 15 Jul 2016

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Ekkehard Knopke. (2020) The arranged mourning ambience. About the professional production of atmospheres at funeral services. Mortality 25:4, pages 433-448.
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Luke van Ryn, James Meese, Michael Arnold, Bjorn Nansen, Martin Gibbs & Tamara Kohn. (2019) Managing the consumption of death and digital media: The funeral director as market intermediary. Death Studies 43:7, pages 446-455.
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Nicola Turner & Glenys Caswell. (2020) A Relative Absence: Exploring Professional Experiences of Funerals Without Mourners. OMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying 85:4, pages 868-886.
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Kate Woodthorpe, Hannah Rumble, Anne Corden, John Birrell, Henk Schut, Margaret Stroebe, Cate Newsom & Yvette Smith. (2021) ‘My Memories of the Time We Had Together Are More Important’: Direct Cremation and the Privatisation of UK Funerals. Sociology 56:3, pages 556-573.
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Samantha Fletcher & William McGowan. (2020) The State of the UK funeral industry. Critical Social Policy 41:2, pages 249-269.
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Brian Parsons. 2018. The Evolution of the British Funeral Industry in the 20th Century: From Undertaker to Funeral Director. The Evolution of the British Funeral Industry in the 20th Century: From Undertaker to Funeral Director 237 268 .

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