Intricacies Of Embalming After Death

The allusion at the beginning of the second paragraph poses the question of whether embalming is something that should be assumed as the process by which someone’s corpse in handled. Almost every other way a corpse in tampered with requires consent of some kind, yet this requires none.

Mitford does not address her essay to professional morticians, but instead everyone else. As she describes the intricacies of the process in which we handle our dead, she critiques and mocks morticians, questioning the legality of their conduct and ridiculing their conduct. However, she is also in the process of making a point about how melancholy the process of how we are treated after death is, so if she is trying to make a change and is ridiculing the supplier