Collision
Cremation as growth versus cremation as decline
- The sides
- Favored: crematories and alternative-disposition providers. Harmed: cemeteries, casket manufacturers, monument dealers. Ambiguous: funeral homes, which sell both.
- In dispute
- No bill proposes cremation — the collision surfaces indirectly, in siting rules, emissions jurisdiction, and alternative-disposition legalization, where one side's expansion is the other's substitution.
- Not in dispute
- The direction of the trend. No segment contests it; they contest whether legislation should smooth or slow it.
- What it means for a coalition
- The deepest structural split in the industry and the least likely to be bridged — it is about which businesses exist in twenty years. Expect it disguised as a technical siting or emissions argument, and read it as this whenever it appears.