POV - Season 17 Episode 4
What is old is often new again. Most funerals today are part of a multimillion-dollar industry run by professionals. This increased reliance on mortuaries has alienated Americans from life's only inevitability — death. A Family Undertaking explores the growing home funeral movement by following several families in their most intimate moments as they reclaim the end of life, forgoing a typical mortuary funeral to care for their loved ones at home. Far from being a radical innovation, keeping funeral rites in the family or among friends is exactly how death was handled for most of pre-20th century America. Prior to the Civil War, caring for and preparing the dead for burial on family farms or in local cemeteries was both a domestic skill and a family responsibility.
First Air Date : 1988-07-05
Last Air date : 2024-12-30
Runtime : 57 minutes
Genre : Documentary
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Subtitles :
- Season 17 : Episode 12004-06-22
- Season 17 : Episode 22004-07-06
- Season 17 : Episode 32004-07-13
- Season 17 : Episode 42004-07-20
- Season 17 : Episode 52004-08-03
- Season 17 : Episode 72004-08-17
- Season 17 : Episode 62004-08-24
- Season 17 : Episode 82004-09-14
- Season 17 : Episode 92004-09-21
- Season 17 : Episode 102005-02-07
- Season 17 : Episode 122005-06-28
- Season 17 : Episode 112005-06-21
- Season 17 : Episode 162004-09-21
- Season 17 : Episode 132004-09-28
- Season 17 : Episode 152004-06-29
- Season 17 : Episode 142004-09-07
