What Happened to Old Fashioned Funerals? (Repeat from 2024 with changes)

Course | Registration opens 8/4/2025 8:00 AM EDT

Penn State York, 1031 Edgecomb Avenue York, PA 17403-3398 United States
Main Classroom Bldg, Conference Center, 31 B and C
Members and nonmembers
9/29/2025 (one day)
3:00 PM-5:00 PM EDT on Mon
$20.00
$8.00

What Happened to Old Fashioned Funerals? (Repeat from 2024 with changes)

Course | Registration opens 8/4/2025 8:00 AM EDT

For thousands of years people have buried their dead with affection and honor, in ways that reflected their beliefs and values. Typical burials in America are disappearing. Cremations and green burials are quickly gaining ground - are you acquainted with them? What are the realities? We’ll see how growing populations, our changing climate, and personal finances are forcing many people to move to new burial methods. These methods raise many questions: what about viewings and costs? Will the new methods shortchange us emotionally? Learn how to plan for the future of funerals.

  • For thousands of years people have buried their dead with affection & honor, in ways that reflected their beliefs & values. “Typical burials” in America are disappearing. Cremations, & "green" burials are quickly gaining ground - are you acquainted with them? What are the realities? We’ll see how growing populations, our changing climate & personal finances are forcing many people to move to new burial methods. These methods raise lots of questions: what about "viewings" & costs? Will the new methods shortchange us emotionally? Learn how to plan for the future of funerals.


Marc Benton

Marc Benton has an  MA in Communication from University of Kentucky; an M.Div. from Yale Divinity School; thirty years as a Presbyterian Pastor in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and New York; and thirty years of college teaching communications at SUNY Orange, York College, and HACC with special interests in religion, perception, personality, and marketing.