![]() ![]() In the book Mitford harshly criticized the industry for using unscrupulous business practices to take advantage of grieving families. ![]() Convinced of public interest, she wrote The American Way of Death, which was published in 1963. Although her article on the subject, "Saint Peter Don't You Call Me", published in Frontier magazine, was not widely disseminated, it caught considerable attention when Mitford appeared on a local television broadcast with two industry representatives. Mitford's husband, civil rights lawyer Robert Treuhaft, persuaded her to write an investigative article about the American funeral industry. An updated revision, The American Way of Death Revisited, completed by Mitford just before her death in 1996, appeared in 1998. The American Way of Death is an exposé of abuses in the funeral home industry in the United States, written by Jessica Mitford and published in 1963. William Sloane Coffin, Jr., Michael Ferber, Mitchel Goodman, and Marcus Raskin ![]()
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