The cremation of the dead / considered from an aesthetic, sanitary, religious, historical, medico-legal, and economical standpoint

Hugo Erichsen

PREFACE.

CONTENTS.

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 AESTHETIC AND RELIGIOUS POINT OF VIEW.

CHAPTER VII. ECONOMY OF CREMATING THE DEAD. THE PRESENT STATE OF THE CREMATION QUESTION.

TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES

Transcriber's Note:

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A MODERN CINERARY URN.
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THE
CREMATION OF THE DEAD
CONSIDERED
FROM AN ÆSTHETIC, SANITARY, RELIGIOUS, HISTORICAL, MEDICO-LEGAL, AND ECONOMICAL STANDPOINT

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

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

“Why should we seek to clothe death with unnecessary terror, and spread horror round the tomb of those we love? The grave should be surrounded with everything that might ensure tenderness and veneration.”
—Washington Irving.

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THE CREMATION OF THE DEAD CONSIDERED FROM AN ÆSTHETIC, SANITARY, RELIGIOUS, HISTORICAL, MEDICO-LEGAL, AND ECONOMICAL STANDPOINT

THE
CREMATION OF THE DEAD
CONSIDERED
FROM AN ÆSTHETIC, SANITARY, RELIGIOUS, HISTORICAL, MEDICO-LEGAL, AND ECONOMICAL STANDPOINT