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

by Hugo Erichsen

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I.
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The History of Cremation	[1]
CHAPTER II.
The Evils of Burial; the Sanitary Aspect of Incineration	[66]
CHAPTER III.
Cremation in Times of War	[129]
CHAPTER IV.
The Processes of Modern Cremation	[140]
CHAPTER V.
The Medico-legal Aspect of Incineration.—The Objections to Cremation	[157]
CHAPTER VI.
Burial Alive.—Cremation from an Æsthetic and Religious Point of View	[180]
CHAPTER VII.
The Economy of Cremating the Dead.—The Present State of the Cremation Question	[224]