Zena Sharman's "Queering Death" series tackles end of life care for LGBTQ+ people

In 1963, British muckraker journalist and political activist Jessica Mitford, who lived much of her life in the U.S., wrote An American Way of Death, exposing the funeral industry's abuses and predatory business practices. A sensationalized and expensive endeavor, funeral-death capitalism was predicated on grifting grieving family members, which normalized the ethics of profiting off of death. — Read the rest