The Death Care Industry: A Review of Regulatory and Consumer Issues

Kopp, Steven W.; Kemp, Elyria

doi:10.1111/j.1745-6606.2006.00072.x

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“…With a complex topic like consumer behavior, there may be limits to the extent of control that regulatory authorities can exert in order to “regulate” the relationship(s) between the consumer and the market. Similar to findings of a review of regulatory and consumer issues in the death care industry (Kopp and Kemp 2007), one can state that although regulation of nutrition labeling was intended to increase consumer protection, changes in the marketplace, as well as in consumption trends, have led to a different landscape in which existing directives are less helpful than originally intended in protecting and guiding the consumer.…”

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“…It is the objective of the present article to assess key questions of nutrition labeling on pre‐packaged food products as part of an effort to both illustrate and evaluate consumer and regulatory issues in this sector (cf. Kopp and Kemp 2007). In analyzing the findings of these research questions, the article provides suggestions for how to advance this stream of research in order to inform managers and policymakers of relevant findings and implications.…”

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A Critical Review of the Literature on Nutritional Labeling

Hieke

Taylor

2011

Journal of Consumer Affairs

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A comprehensive overview and critique of the nutrition labeling literature is provided. Studies examining the design and features of label formats and their impact on consumers being better informed and engaging in healthier behaviors are examined to summarize available knowledge in the field. The review suggests that while the extant literature has provided worthwhile critiques of the Nutrition Labeling and Education Act in terms of meeting its stated goals, as well as other general insights, it allows only for very tentative and conditional statements about factors related to the "bottom line" effectiveness of nutritional labeling. The outcome of the review suggests that a more holistic view of nutritional labeling is needed. Suggestions for future research that focus on both conceptualizations of the studies as well as methodology are made.Sophie Hieke (Sophie.Hieke@eufic.org) is the Consumer Insights SPRING 2012 VOLUME 46, NUMBER 1 121 to identify moderators, such as research design, sample characteristics and time periods (Franke 2001). More than 30 years of empirical research on nutrition labeling, label characteristics, and effects of personal and sociodemographic factors on label usage have been identified and synthesized in this study.The review procedure was initiated in spring 2009, with updates occurring throughout 2010, following suggestions by Franke (2001), Rosenthal (1995) and Hunter and Schmidt (1990). For the purpose of identifying relevant articles, the authors first carried out a general keyword search in the EBSCO databases examining the extant literature. The list of articles was iteratively supplemented as the analysis continued.

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A Critical Review of the Literature on Nutritional Labeling

Hieke

Taylor

2011

Journal of Consumer Affairs

162

135

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“…The extant marketing literature on EOL products focuses primarily on five research areas. One area relates to evaluating industry regulations and consumer protection for EOL products (e.g., Kopp & Kemp, 2007a, 2007bQuilliam, 2008aQuilliam, , 2008b. A second area examines costs and financial, as well as, psychological, burdens incurred from purchasing EOL products/services (e.g., Banks, 1998;Fan & Zick, 2004;McManus & Schafer, 2014).…”

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Emotions, deliberations, and end‐of‐life products

Sheng

Simpson

Siguaw

2019

Psychology and Marketing

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Death is inevitable; yet, not all consumers prepare for death by purchasing end‐of‐life (EOL) products. Using the theory of reasoned action (TRA) and the dual‐process model framework, this study aims to examine the role of emotions and cognitions in influencing consumers' decisions to engage in planning for death. A mixed methodology design was used. Study 1, a qualitative study, uncovered positive and negative emotions and deliberative reasoning that comprise consumers' EOL purchase decision process. Study 2, a quantitative study, confirmed that emotions and deliberations independently and jointly influenced consumers' EOL attitude and behavior and that emotions affected deliberations for both prepaid funerals and wills. Subjective norms outperformed attitude in predicting both products' purchase behavior. These finding supported the dual‐process model of behavior and the TRA in the EOL research context and contributed to the EOL literature by investigating the effects of emotions and deliberations concurrently; thus validating the important role of emotions in influencing EOL planning and purchase. In light of our findings, marketers could, after due cognizance of the morbidity and sensitivity of the topic, develop actionable promotional and segmentation strategies for EOL products and other emotion‐laden, unsought products and service.

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“…After the community recites prayers, the body is then transported to the cemetery for burial. Generally, communities in the United States do not allow for direct burial without a casket (Kopp and Kemp 2007), and thus, in the United States, Muslims will purchase a simple, non-ornamental box, sometimes, ironically, from Orthodox Jewish suppliers of death goods. Because both Jews and Muslims choose to forgo embalmment, caskets are closed and simple, and made of biodegradable materials.…”

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Buying an Afterlife: Mapping the Social Impact of Religious Beliefs through Consumer Death Goods

Cann

2017

Religions

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Choosing to have a body embalmed, the choice of interment locations and type, including the selection of a particular casket, are all deeply intertwined with various understandings of the afterlife, and views of the body after death. Consumer choices in these cases are often determined by imagined embodiment, and are determined in part by non-rational consumer choices based on religious upbringing and belief. In turn, diasporic and religious identity can be reinforced and solidified through consumer choices that then fulfill religious imaginations of post-death embodiment. This article traces the relationship of two consumer death goods-embalming and caskets-in the contemporary United States, examining both the implicit and explicit relationships these products have with religious worldviews, mapping the social impact of religious beliefs on consumer death choices.

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The Death Care Industry: A Review of Regulatory and Consumer Issues

Cited by 31 publications

References 21 publications

A Critical Review of the Literature on Nutritional Labeling

A Critical Review of the Literature on Nutritional Labeling

Emotions, deliberations, and end‐of‐life products

Buying an Afterlife: Mapping the Social Impact of Religious Beliefs through Consumer Death Goods

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