Alternate Endings: Six New Ways to Die in America offers a fascinating look at the varied ways Americans are choosing to both find meaning and celebrate life as it comes to an end. With attitudes about death and end-of-life choices rapidly changing, 2018 saw the first time more Americans chose cremation over more expensive, traditional burials, disrupting the $16 billion a year funeral industry. As the baby boomer generation approaches death, more and more are rethinking the way end of life is recognized and are deciding to take control of what will happen when they die.
I live in Louisiana; the only state in the Union which requires its citizens to surrender the remains of their loved ones by legal mandate to an industry which ruthlessly suppresses transparency, defrauds consumers with abandon and uses regulatory capture to perpetuate a death grip upon the freedoms of its citizenry. Thanks to HBO and series likes these, things are going to change.
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