From Announcement to Cemetery. Deceased, Buried and Mourned in the Netherlands

A description of the old rituals in the Netherlands designed to allow people to cope with the confusion and grief attendant on a death. As in Flanders, more and more Dutch people are opting for cremation. Here too we see death leaving the realm of everyday life and becoming a matter for doctors and undertakers. And again, in reaction to this ‘funeral factory' more and more of them are looking for an individual style of funeral, something to give death a little more colour.