RELI 378 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Funeral Director, Embalming Chemicals
2 Jan 2018
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>in many places in the us, the idea of shiftin all care of the body to the mortician was a hard sell, only a generation after (1870s-1880s) in the us south were funeral directors actually allowed and used. > next big north american death trend: cremation -> introduced by the theosophy society (1875) -> usually white upper classmen with passion for eastern traditions (mostly hinduism) > first cremation in pennsylvania in 1876 by this society and it was very controversial. > most eastern christians and orthodoxes are still opposed to cremation. Since 1963 the pope lifted the ban on cremation with the sole condition that the ashes must be preserved and not scattered. Because of its cheap costs it became an extremely popular method in north america jumping from 4. 6% to over 44% in a span of less than seventy years.
