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A MODERN CINERARY URN. (Frontispiece.)
THE CREMATION OF THE DEAD CONSIDERED FROM AN ÆSTHETIC, SANITARY, RELIGIOUS, HISTORICAL, MEDICO-LEGAL, AND ECONOMICAL STANDPOINT
BY
HUGO ERICHSEN, M.D.
Licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Kingston, Canada; Member of the Committee of Organization of the First International Cremation Congress; Corresponding Member of the Cremation Societies of New York and Berlin; Foreign Associate Member of the Hygienic Society of France; Honorary Member of the Cremation Society of Milan, Italy; etc.
With an Introductory Note
BY
Sir T. SPENCER WELLS, Bart., F.R.S.
Late President of the Royal College of Surgeons of England; Surgeon to the Queen’s Household; etc.
ILLUSTRATED
Delenda est inhumatio!
DETROIT
D. O. HAYNES & COMPANY
1887
“Why should we seek to clothe death with unnecessary terror, andspread horror round the tomb of those we love? The grave should besurrounded with everything that might ensure tenderness and veneration.”
—Washington Irving.
“Die Leichenverbrennung verdient die Achtung, welche ihr um ihreshohen Werthes willen im klassischen Alterthum gezollt wurde, auchheute noch, da sie die einzige Art der Todtenbestattung ist, die vor denschrecklichen Folgen der Verwesungsduenste sichert und das bei derLeichenbeerdigung so oft vorgekommene Wiedererwachen im Grabeverhuetet.”
