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《美国式死亡》(The American Way of Death)一书中，杰茜卡•米特福德(Jessica Mitford)描绘了美国殡葬业的离谱收费——用绸缎做内衬的棺材、遗体美容和昂贵的花圈。促使丧亲者为这些奢侈殡葬服务买单的，不仅仅是他们失去亲人时情感上的脆弱，还有一种畏惧、甚至否认死亡的民族文化：必须把死亡这个冰冷的事实装饰和包裹起来。
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