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Just Enough to Put Him Away Decent Death Care Life Extension and the Making of a Healthier South

by [McCusker, Kristine M.]

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As the twentieth century began, Black and white southerners alike dealt with low life expectancy and poor healthcare in a region synonymous with early death. But the modernization of death care by a diverse group of actors changed not only death rituals but fundamental ideas about health and wellness.

Kristine McCusker charts the dramatic transformation that took place when southerners in particular and Americans in general changed their thinking about when one should die, how that death could occur, and what decent burial really means. As she shows, death care evolved from being a community act to a commercial one where purchasing a purple coffin and hearse ride to the cemetery became a political statement and the norm. That evolution also required interactions between perfect strangers, especially during the world wars as families searched for their missing soldiers. In either case, being put away decent, as southerners called burial, came to mean something fundamentally different in 1955 than it had just fifty years earlier.

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  • University of Illinois Pr Brand
  • Jun 20, 2023 Pub Date:
  • 9780252087219 ISBN-13:
  • 0252087216 ISBN-10:
  • 318.0 pages Paperback
  • English Language
  • 9.25 in * 0.8 in * 6.12 in Dimensions:
  • 1 lb Weight: