In The American Way of Death, Jessica Mitford described the satin-lined coffins, beautified corpses and lavish wreaths of the extortionate US funeral industry. What induced the bereaved to pay for such luxuries was not just their emotional frailty in their moment of loss. It was also a national culture that feared and even denied death: that had to literally dress up the cold fact of it.
在《美國式死亡》(The American Way of Death)一書中，杰茜卡?米特福德(Jessica Mitford)描繪了美國殯葬業的離譜收費——用綢緞做內襯的棺材、遺體美容和昂貴的花圈。促使喪親者為這些奢侈殯葬服務買單的，不僅僅是他們失去親人時情感上的脆弱，還有一種畏懼、甚至否認死亡的民族文化：必須把死亡這個冰冷的事實裝飾和包裹起來。
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