{"product_id":"9780060766849","title":"Remember Me: A Lively Tour of the New American Way of Death","description":"\u003cp\u003eCullen has created a humorous and poignant chronicle of her travels around the country to discover how Americans — baby boomers, in particular — are reinventing the rites of dying. What she discovered is that the people who reinvented youth, redefined careers, and reconceived middle age have created a new attitude toward the afterlife. They no longer want to take death lying down; instead, they're taking their demise into their own hands and planning the after-party.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCullen begins her journey at a national undertakers' convention in Nashville, where she checks out the latest in death merchandise. Traveling with her newborn infant on her back, she hears stories of modern-day funerals: lobster-shaped caskets and other unconventional containers for corpses; the booming cremation industry that has spawned a slew of \"end-trepreneurs,\" including a company that turns cremated remains into diamonds; and even mishaps like dove releases gone horribly wrong.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCullen tours the country's first \"green\" cemetery in South Carolina, meets a mummification advocate at his pyramid in Utah, and visits the Frozen Dead Guy Days festival in Colorado. She crashes a Hmong funeral in Minneapolis and a tango funeral in Washington, D.C.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEye-opening, funny, and unforgettable, \u003ci\u003eRemember Me\u003c\/i\u003e gives an account of the ways in which Americans are designing new occasions to mark death — by celebrating life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HarperCollins Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47021778075888,"sku":"9780060766849","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780060766849_p0.jpg?v=1763767213","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780060766849","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}