Add to ORKGThe subject of to-night's paper is perhaps a somewhat sad one, and appeals largely to the sentimental part of our natures, but it is nevertheless of the greatest importance from a sanitary point of view, and that shall be my apology for bringing it under your notice. The disposal of our dead by some other and better method than earth burial is one of the sanitary reforms that must be adopted sooner or later. Cremation is the only practicable mode that we know of at present, which gives the greatest protection to the living, and if decently and reverently carried out cannot insult the dead nor hurt the feelings of those left to mourn their loss. Old time usages and prejudices have led many to believe that earth burial is the only C...
Funeral services are known to serve multiple functions for bereaved persons. There is also a common,...
This book chapter is made available with kind permission of University of Arizona Press
This research paper analyzes Catholic, Daoist, and Jewish beliefs on death, the body, the soul, afte...
In current environmental discourse, disposal does not remove and destroy waste but rather transforms...
Abstract Methods for preparing and burying the dead vary widely across time and cultures, but an end...
In the late Nineteenth Century, doctors concerned with the unsanitary and crowded cemeteries of the ...
This article draws on data from a qualitative study of the destinations of ashes now being removed i...
In the beginning there was the dead body: lifeless matter, soon to decay, from which all that was hu...
In this article, the literary and archaeological evidence for burial practices that can be associ-at...
From the outset the lack of a shared and clear expectation of what was required from a crematorium a...
Medicine in the second half of the nineteenth century takes on some characteristics of modernity. Th...
National audienceEthnological data’s are largely used to restitute the way a cadaver is burnt on a p...
The paper argues that grave re-use cannot be ethically evaluated simply by adverting to cognate issu...
Since time began the burial cremation or embalming of the dead has held great significance to the li...
In cemeteries of the Wielbark Culture we notice inhumation or cremation graves, in which there are e...
Funeral services are known to serve multiple functions for bereaved persons. There is also a common,...
This book chapter is made available with kind permission of University of Arizona Press
This research paper analyzes Catholic, Daoist, and Jewish beliefs on death, the body, the soul, afte...
In current environmental discourse, disposal does not remove and destroy waste but rather transforms...
Abstract Methods for preparing and burying the dead vary widely across time and cultures, but an end...
In the late Nineteenth Century, doctors concerned with the unsanitary and crowded cemeteries of the ...
This article draws on data from a qualitative study of the destinations of ashes now being removed i...
In the beginning there was the dead body: lifeless matter, soon to decay, from which all that was hu...
In this article, the literary and archaeological evidence for burial practices that can be associ-at...
From the outset the lack of a shared and clear expectation of what was required from a crematorium a...
Medicine in the second half of the nineteenth century takes on some characteristics of modernity. Th...
National audienceEthnological data’s are largely used to restitute the way a cadaver is burnt on a p...
The paper argues that grave re-use cannot be ethically evaluated simply by adverting to cognate issu...
Since time began the burial cremation or embalming of the dead has held great significance to the li...
In cemeteries of the Wielbark Culture we notice inhumation or cremation graves, in which there are e...
Funeral services are known to serve multiple functions for bereaved persons. There is also a common,...
This book chapter is made available with kind permission of University of Arizona Press
This research paper analyzes Catholic, Daoist, and Jewish beliefs on death, the body, the soul, afte...