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| cremation & burial society of pennsylvania: Cremation in America Fred Rosen, 2010-10-05 In this captivating review of the history, the practice, and the industry of cremation in America, award-winning former New York Times columnist Fred Rosen provides an authoritative source of information and many revealing facts about an increasingly common, yet still controversial, alternative to burial. Rosen gives an entertaining first person account of his inquiry into the practice of cremation and its roots. He describes the early ancient custom of cremation by funeral pyre and then explores why the rising Church banned the practice as a sacrilege. He then traces the underpinnings of the modern cremation movement in the late 19th century among a colorful group of intellectuals and physicians. This 19th century group endorsed this then illegal practice as a means to improve public health--as a way to prevent seepage of burial grounds from polluting ground water and spreading disease. Rosen goes on to examine, in today''s world, people''s feelings about death and religion as well as their sensitivities to cremation. Given certain abuses, he believes that this industry needs to be regulated. However, he finds much in favor of cremation when firsthand comparing its costs vs. the excesses and extravagances of the burial funeral industry. In an age when over 25 percent of the population is turning to cremation as a preferred funeral arrangement, this book offers much timely, useful, and engrossing information. |
| cremation & burial society of pennsylvania: Encyclopedia of Cremation Lewis H. Mates, 2016-04-29 The Encyclopedia of Cremation is the first major reference resource focused on cremation. Spanning many world cultures it documents regional histories, ideological movements and leading individuals that fostered cremation whilst also presenting cremation as a universal practice. Tracing ancient and classical cremation sites, historical and contemporary cremation processes and procedures of both scientific and legal kind, the encyclopedia also includes sections on specific cremation rituals, architecture, art and text. Features in the volume include: a general introduction and editorial introductions to sub-sections by Douglas Davies, an international specialist in death studies; appendices of world cremation statistics and a chronology of cremation; cross-referencing pathways through the entries via the index; individual entry bibliographies; and illustrations. This major international reference work is also an essential source book for students on the growing number of death-studies courses and wider studies in religion, anthropology or sociology. |
| cremation & burial society of pennsylvania: The Manufacturer and Builder Peter Henri Van der Weyde, William Henry Wahl, 1887 Billed in early issues as a practical journal of industrial progress, this monthly covers a broad range of topics in engineering, manufacturing, mechanics, architecture, building, etc. Later issues say it is devoted to the advancement and diffusion of practical knowledge. |
| cremation & burial society of pennsylvania: Institutions and the Person Howard Saul Becker, Blanche Geer, David Riesman, Robert S. Weiss, 2017-07-12 Everett C. Hughes had a great impact on the field of sociology as a whole and on an entire generation of sociologists. Some of Hughes' former students and colleagues honor him in this book. The essays address the main themes in his work over the years, and illustrate as well Hughes' impact on the contributors, many of whom are themselves senior figures in the field. The book as a whole provides a distinguished and representative sampling of a major stream of contemporary sociological thought. Each of the five main divisions in the book covers one aspect of Hughes' work. The first deals with the study of occupations and professions-a field in which Hughes was a leader. The second section deals with race relations and other situations in which peoples of differing cultures meet. Beginning with his own work in French Canada many years ago, Hughes interests spread, and the breadth of this interest is seen in chapters on India, Peru, and race relations in the United States. Problems of organizations-how they are put together and how they work-are contained in a third section. A fourth section reflects Hughes' interest in the impact of institutional experience on the people who participate in social institutions, and includes chapters on occupational socialization, status passage, and the use of drugs. A final section develops still another of Hughes' interests-social science method. Presenting some of the most important topics of contemporary theory and research, this book remains profitable reading for every member of the discipline |
| cremation & burial society of pennsylvania: The City of First George Morgan, 1926 |
| cremation & burial society of pennsylvania: The Johannes Schwab Family James Jonas Swab, 1994 The immigrant ancestor Johannes (Jacob) Schwab (1720-1785) was born in Germany, and came to America on the ship Halifax arriving in Philadelphia, Pa. in 1754. In 1760/61 he appears as a renter on the Heidelberg Twp., Berks Co., Pa. tax list. He appears on the Bethel Twp. tax list from 1762 until his death in 1785. Descendants and family members live in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Kansas, Montana and elsewhere. |
| cremation & burial society of pennsylvania: The Encyclopedia of Social Reform William Dwight Porter Bliss, 1897 |
| cremation & burial society of pennsylvania: Getting Your Affairs in Order , 1988 |
| cremation & burial society of pennsylvania: Pennsylvania Archaeologist , 2001 |
| cremation & burial society of pennsylvania: Respectable Burial Brian Young, 2003-05-26 Respectable Burial also highlights how important a role Montreal played in Canada's history. The cemetery is the final resting place of politician Alexander Galt, poet F.R. Scott, hockey star Howie Morenz, explorer David Thompson, bank presidents, renegades, hangmen, and victims of the Titanic. This history of a model rural cemetery, an innovator in perpetual care and proprietor of the first crematorium in Canada, illustrates changing attitudes to burial and commemoration - including the relationships between Protestantism, Romanticism, and death. Young also shows how the cemetery, a site of great natural beauty that helped inspire Frederick Law Olmsted's adjacent Mount Royal Park, became a much-loved public urban space and examines how the evolution of its landscaping, architecture, and use reflect changing attitudes to the place of women, recreation, heritage, and the environment. Incorporating a rich collection of archival illustrations, walking maps, and a colour photo essay by photographer Geoffrey James, Respectable Burial will appeal to anyone interested in Canadian history, parks, and cities. |
| cremation & burial society of pennsylvania: Purified by Fire Stephen Prothero, 2001-02-15 Publisher Fact Sheet A history of cremation in America. |
| cremation & burial society of pennsylvania: Bisel's Pennsylvania Consumer Lawsource Pennsylvania, 2004 |
| cremation & burial society of pennsylvania: Dealing with Death Jennifer Green and Michael Green, 2013-12-01 |
| cremation & burial society of pennsylvania: Where Valor Rests Rick Atkinson, 2009-05 Presents a collection of over 170 images and archival photographs that trace the history of Arlington National Cemetery in Washington DC. |
| cremation & burial society of pennsylvania: Funeral Service Barbara K. Harrah, David F. Harrah, 1976 |
| cremation & burial society of pennsylvania: The Living Church , 1945 |
| cremation & burial society of pennsylvania: The Corpse Christine Quigley, 2015-09-17 Throughout the centuries, different cultures have established a variety of procedures for handling and disposing of corpses. Often the methods are directly associated with the deceased's position in life, such as a pharaoh's mummification in Egypt or the cremation of a Buddhist. Treatment by the living of the dead over time and across cultures is the focus of this study. Burial arrangements and preparations are detailed, including embalming, the funeral service, storage and transport of the body, and forms of burial. Autopsies and the investigative process of causes of deliberate death are fully covered. Preservation techniques such as cryonic suspension and mummification are discussed, as well as a look at the recycling of the corpse through organ donation, donation to medicine, animal scavengers, cannibalism, and, of course, natural decay and decomposition. Mistreatments of a corpse are also covered. |
| cremation & burial society of pennsylvania: Death, Society, and Human Experience Robert Kastenbaum, Christopher M. Moreman, 2018-03-29 Providing an overview of the myriad ways that we are touched by death and dying, both as an individual and as a member of society, this book will help readers understand our relationship with death. Kastenbaum and Moreman show how various ways that individual and societal attitudes influence both how and when we die and how we live and deal with the knowledge of death and loss. This landmark text draws on contributions from the social and behavioral sciences as well as the humanities, such as history, religion, philosophy, literature, and the arts, to provide thorough coverage of understanding death and the dying process. Death, Society, and Human Experience was originally written by Robert Kastenbaum, a renowned scholar who developed one of the world’s first death education courses. Christopher Moreman, who has worked in the field of death studies for almost two decades specializing in afterlife beliefs and experiences, has updated this edition. |
| cremation & burial society of pennsylvania: Transactions Homoeopathic Medical Society of the State of New York, 1884 |
| cremation & burial society of pennsylvania: Archaeology, Copper, and Complexity in the Middle Atlantic Region Gregory Denis Lattanzi, 2022-01-14 For the prehistoric people of the Middle Atlantic region, copper held a fascination higher than rank, achievement, or status. Native copper artifacts, along with other exotic objects, were seen as a conduit or connection between the living and the dead and were used in burial. Other studies have viewed the use of such artifacts in burials as indicative of an individual’s status and rank, providing evidence for complex society. In Archaeology, Copper, and Complexity, Gregory Denis Lattanzi contends that such economic explanations should be rethought, arguing that the presence of highly exotic artifacts like copper beads and gorgets could be representative of the different mechanisms at play within prehistoric ideology, ceremonialism, and ritual. |
| cremation & burial society of pennsylvania: Funeral Practices and the Elderly United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Aging. Subcommittee on Housing and Consumer Interests, 1982 |
| cremation & burial society of pennsylvania: Mortuary Science John Szabo, 2002 Szabo presents a thorough bibliographical examination of the funeral industry and related subjects. Most citations are annotated, with special notes on editions and reprints. |
| cremation & burial society of pennsylvania: Death, Society and Human Experience (1-download) Robert Kastenbaum, 2015-07-22 Providing an understanding of the relationship with death, both as an individual and as a member of society. This book is intended to contribute to your understanding of your relationship with death, both as an individual and as a member of society. Kastenbaum shows how individual and societal attitudes influence both how and when we die and how we live and deal with the knowledge of death and loss. Robert Kastenbaum is a renowned scholar who developed one of the world's first death education courses and introduced the first text for this market. This landmark text draws on contributions from the social and behavioral sciences as well as the humanities, such as history, religion, philosophy, literature, and the arts, to provide thorough coverage of understanding death and the dying process. Learning Goals Upon completing this book, readers should be able to: -Understand the relationship with death, both as an individual and as a member of society -See how social forces and events affect the length of our lives, how we grieve, and how we die -Learn how dying people are perceived and treated in our society and what can be done to provide the best possible care -Master an understanding of continuing developments and challenges to hospice (palliative care). -Understand what is becoming of faith and doubt about an afterlife |
| cremation & burial society of pennsylvania: Grave Matters Mark Harris, 2007-01-16 By the time Nate Fisher was laid to rest in a woodland grave sans coffin in the final season of Six Feet Under, Americans all across the country were starting to look outside the box when death came calling. Grave Matters follows families who found in green burial a more natural, more economic, and ultimately more meaningful alternative to the tired and toxic send-off on offer at the local funeral parlor. Eschewing chemical embalming and fancy caskets, elaborate and costly funerals, they have embraced a range of natural options, new and old, that are redefining a better American way of death. Environmental journalist Mark Harris examines this new green burial underground, leading you into natural cemeteries and domestic graveyards, taking you aboard boats from which ashes and memorial reef balls are cast into the sea. He follows a family that conducts a home funeral, one that delivers a loved one to the crematory, and another that hires a carpenter to build a pine coffin. In the morbidly fascinating tradition of Stiff, Grave Matters details the embalming process and the environmental aftermath of the standard funeral. Harris also traces the history of burial in America, from frontier cemeteries to the billion-dollar business it is today, reporting on real families who opted for more simple, natural returns. For readers who want to follow the examples of these families and, literally, give back from the grave, appendices detail everything you need to know, from exact costs and laws to natural burial providers and their contact information. |
| cremation & burial society of pennsylvania: Journal of the American Medical Association , 1895 |
| cremation & burial society of pennsylvania: The Journal of the American Medical Association , 1904 |
| cremation & burial society of pennsylvania: The Jewish Body Robert Jütte, 2020-12-25 An encyclopedic survey of the Jewish body as it has existed and as it has been imagined from biblical times to the present That the human body can be the object not only of biological study but also of historical consideration and cultural criticism is now widely accepted. But why, Robert Jütte asks, should a historian bother with the Jewish body in particular? And is the Jewish body as much a concept constructed over the course of centuries by Jews and non-Jews alike as it is a physical reality? To comprehend the notion and existence of a Jewish body, he contends, one needs to look both at the images and traits that have been ascribed to Jews by themselves and others, and to the specific bodily practices that have played an important role in creating the identity of a religious and cultural community. Jütte has written an encyclopedic survey of the Jewish body as it has existed and as it has been imagined from biblical times to the present, often for anti-Jewish purposes. He examines the techniques for caring for the body that Jews acquire in childhood from parents and authority figures and how these have changed over the course of a more than 2000-year history, most of it spent in exile. From consideration of traditional body stereotypes, such as the so-called Jewish nose, to matters of gender and sexuality, sickness and health, and the inevitable end of the body in death, The Jewish Body explores the historical foundations of the human physis in all its aspects. |
| cremation & burial society of pennsylvania: Modern Cemetery , 1940-03 |
| cremation & burial society of pennsylvania: New York Medical Journal , 1891 |
| cremation & burial society of pennsylvania: Funeral Management and Costs: a World-survey of Burial and Cremation Quincey Lamartine Dowd, 1921 |
| cremation & burial society of pennsylvania: The Archaeology of Death in Roman Syria Lidewijde de Jong, 2017-07-20 This book sheds new light on funerary customs in Roman Syria, offering a novel way of understanding its provincial culture. |
| cremation & burial society of pennsylvania: International Record of Medicine and General Practice Clinics Frank Pierce Foster, 1891 |
| cremation & burial society of pennsylvania: Ransom Researcher , 1997 |
| cremation & burial society of pennsylvania: The A–Z of Death and Dying Michael John Brennan, 2014-02-17 This engaging and informative resource provides readers with an understanding of the social, cultural, and historical influences that shape our encounters with death, dying, and bereavement—a universal experience across humanity. Written in an engaging and accessible style by leading international scholars and practitioners from within the field of death and bereavement studies, this book will have broad appeal, providing in a single volume insights from some of the key thinkers within the interdisciplinary field of death, dying, and bereavement. Its approximately 200 entries will serve as useful starting points for those new to the topic and will be informative to those already acquainted with some of the core concepts and ideas within this burgeoning field of inquiry. This encyclopedia will serve as an essential resource for high school and undergraduate students, those engaged in independent research, and professionals whose work involves caring for the dead, dying, and bereaved. It will also be of great interest to general readers intrigued by the social, medical, and cultural dimensions to human mortality. Underscored by the inescapable biological certainties that affect us all, The A–Z of Death and Dying offers a highly relevant examination of the social and historical variation in the rituals, practices, and beliefs surrounding the end of life. |
| cremation & burial society of pennsylvania: Pennsylvania Bulletin , 2009 The Pennsylvania bulletin is the official gazette of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. It contains notices, regulations and other documents filed with the Legislative Reference Bureau ... and supplements the Pennsylvania code ... |
| cremation & burial society of pennsylvania: America, History and Life , 1998 Provides historical coverage of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. Includes information abstracted from over 2,000 journals published worldwide. |
| cremation & burial society of pennsylvania: Park and Cemetery and Landscape Garderning , 1928 |
| cremation & burial society of pennsylvania: Purified by Fire Stephen Prothero, 2001 Publisher Fact Sheet A history of cremation in America. |
| cremation & burial society of pennsylvania: Confessions of a Funeral Director Caleb Wilde, 2017-09-26 “Wise, vulnerable, and surprisingly relatable . . . funny in all the right places and enormously helpful throughout. It will change how you think about death.” —Rachel Held Evans, New York Times–bestselling author of Searching for Sunday We are a people who deeply fear death. While humans are biologically wired to evade death for as long as possible, we have become too adept at hiding from it, vilifying it, and—when it can be avoided no longer—letting the professionals take over. Sixth-generation funeral director Caleb Wilde understands this reticence and fear. He had planned to get as far away from the family business as possible. He wanted to make a difference in the world, and how could he do that if all the people he worked with were . . . dead? Slowly, he discovered that caring for the deceased and their loved ones was making a difference—in other people’s lives to be sure, but it also seemed to be saving his own. A spirituality of death began to emerge as he observed the family who lovingly dressed their deceased father for his burial; the nursing home that honored a woman’s life by standing in procession as her body was taken away; the funeral that united a conflicted community. Through stories like these, told with equal parts humor and poignancy, Wilde’s candid memoir offers an intimate look into the business of death and a new perspective on living and dying. “Open[s] up conversations about life’s ultimate concerns.” —The Washington Post “As a look behind the closed doors of the death industry, as well as a candid exploration of Wilde’s own faith journey, this book is fascinating and compelling.” —National Catholic Reporter “[A] stunner of a debut.” —Rachel Held Evans, author of Inspired |
| cremation & burial society of pennsylvania: THE SANITARY RECORD , 1884 |
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Misconception: Cremation dishonors the body. Fact: The Bible says that those who die return to the dust, which is what naturally happens to a corpse when it decomposes. (Genesis 3: 19) …
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