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Cremation of the Dead: Its History and Bearings Upon Public Health
William Eassie
William Eassie proposed the flame as the answer to the overflowing graveyard, arguing that fire guarded the living better than the grave. His treatise weighs burial law, the dangers of decomposition and the sanitary case for cremation. A founding text of the movement that changed how cities treat their dead. Follow the argument that carried cremation into modern life.
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21 chapters
- 1CREMATION OF THE DEAD ITS HISTORY AND BEARINGS UPON PUBLIC HEALTH
- 2PREFACE.
- 3CONTENTS.
- 4ILLUSTRATIONS.
- 5(All at end of book.)
- 6CREMATION OF THE DEAD. CHAPTER I.
- 7INTRODUCTION.
- 8CHAPTER II.
- 9METHODS OF TREATING THE DEAD.
- 10CHAPTER III.
- 11OUR BURIAL LAWS.
- 12CHAPTER IV.
- 13DANGERS OF OUR SYSTEM OF BURIAL.
- 14CHAPTER V.
- 15PRESENT STATE OF THE CREMATION QUESTION.[117]
- 16CHAPTER VI.
- 17CREMATION, ANCIENT AND MODERN.
- 18BIBLIOGRAPHY OF CREMATION.
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