POV - Season 17 Episode 4 Last Man Standing: Politics---Texas Style
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.
- Title: POV
- Year: 2023
- Genre: Documentary
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- Studio: PBS
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- Runtime: 60 minutes
- IMDb: 6.80 / 10 by 10 users
- Popularity: 18.993
- First Air Date: Jul 05, 1988
- Last Air date: Sep 04, 2023
- Season: 37 Season
- Episode: 433 Episode
- Language: English
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