OK, so go to the wake or the shiva or whatever. You don't have to buy into the funeral industrial complex to believe it's important to honor the dead. In fact,

OK, so go to the wake or the shiva or whatever. You don't have to buy into the funeral industrial complex to believe it's important to honor the dead. In fact, I think you have it exactly backwards. The industry popped up in order to exploit a deep human need. It did not create that need.