It is hardly necessary to explain the purpose of this work. It is an appeal to the general public; a plea for the burning of the dead. The period of fierce and fanatic opposition to cremation has pas
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It is hardly necessary to explain the purpose of this work. It is an appeal to the general public; a plea for the burning of the dead. The period of fierce and fanatic opposition to cremation has passed, and made way for a calm consideration of the subject. In 1874 a Persian gentleman, then a resident of one of the Eastern States of our own free and great republic, who wanted to have his wife cremated, was compelled by an ignorant mob to resort to interment. Happily we are over that now.
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- PREFACE.
- INTRODUCTION.
- CHAPTER I. THE HISTORY OF CREMATION.
- CHAPTER II. THE EVILS OF BURIAL; THE SANITARY ASPECT OF INCINERATION.
- CHAPTER III. CREMATION IN TIMES OF WAR.
- CHAPTER IV. THE PROCESS OF MODERN CREMATION.
- CHAPTER V. THE MEDICO-LEGAL ASPECT OF INCINERATION.—THE OBJECTIONS TO CREMATION.
- CHAPTER VI. BURIAL ALIVE.—CREMATION FROM AN ?STHETIC AND RELIGIOUS POINT OF VIEW.
- CHAPTER VII. ECONOMY OF CREMATING THE DEAD.—THE PRESENT STATE OF THE CREMATION QUESTION.