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The ideals of a cremationist are more beautiful. A dignified building,
surrounded with a beautiful garden, a well-appointed chapel, the
committal of the body, not to a furnace, not to a fire, but to a
super-heated chamber, where the mortal remains are swiftly disintegrated
and reduced to a mere handful of harmless white ashes, which can
be preserved anywhere desired, or placed in an urn in the Columbarium.
Cremation is carried out with simple reverence and with a total
absence of the harrowing details of burial. Burial with its attendant
horrors of a wet day, the clay, the coffin being lowered into the grave,
and the casting of the earth upon the coffin, causes one to shudder at
the the thought of leaving one's beloved ones there alone.