The Embalming of Mr. Jones
Words: 1662 Pages: 6 1155Introduction In November 2024, the Federal Trade Commission published the results of its first undercover phone sweep of the American funeral industry, revealing that dozens of funeral homes gave callers inconsistent pricing and, in some cases, falsely claimed that embalming was required by law (Federal Trade Commission, 2024). The finding is not new so much as it is newly documented. More than six decades ago, critics of the death-care industry used the fictionalized figure of "Mr. Jones" to dramatize how […]