title: Are we all equal at death?: death competence in municipal cemetery management.
abstract: Managers of local government cemeteries should balance social and cultural expectations with fiscal responsibility and when they do so they demonstrate death competence in cemetery management. This study reviews the cultural and social equity aspects of the consumption of cemetery services and develops tools to take into account social equity and cultural concerns for public sector cemetery managers. Cemetery demand and pricing models are developed and applied to the case of Austin, Texas. These models enhance the estimation of demand by taking into account cultural factors and contextualize pricing in terms of social equity concerns.
authors.affiliation: a Department of Political Science , Texas State University , San Marcos , Texas , USA.
authors.forename: Thomas
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Longoria
mesh_terms: D002048:Burial / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D055699:Cemeteries / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D005160:Facility Design and Construction; D005655:Funeral Rites; D006801:Humans; D009111:Local Government; D009027:Mortuary Practice / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D013781:Texas; D014481:United States; D014505:Urban Population / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*