People are always looking for explanations and a better understanding of what is really real, what really counts in people's lives, what ultimately matters.

If you can't understand it without an explanation, you can't understand it with an explanation.

Those are still religious objects.

These funeral directors, in addition to all these other things they provide, are sort of these ... cultural repositories, in the sense that they know these traditions.

to replace materialistic explanations with the theistic understanding that nature and human beings are created by God.

The explanations I heard were that they just didn't call many people up. Mostly, they just didn't want to mess with the chemistry in the clubhouse.