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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.
Episodes in Season 17
Farmingville
60 min
War Feels Like War
60 min
Thirst
60 min
Last Man Standing: Politics---Texas Style
60 min
A Family Undertaking
60 min
Speedo: A Demolition Derby Love Story
60 min
Every Mother's Son
60 min
Freedom Machines
60 min
A Panther in Africa
60 min
Chisholm '72
The Education of Shelby Knox
Big Enough
Lost Boys of Sudan
83 min
Wattstax
60 min
