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‘A Will for the Woods’ is a Beautiful Rumination on Life, Death and Burial Choice

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Christopher Campbell
Aug 14, 2014
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A Will for the Woods contains many lovely images of nature, but the film’s most striking scene is set indoors. The documentary pays a visit to a trade expo for funerary services. You may find it disturbing that the way we memorialize our recently deceased is as commodified as farming equipment or massage chairs, but that’s capitalism for you. It turns o…

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