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Although cremation was not explicitly taboo among Christians, it was not encouraged by them because of pagan associations and because of the concern that it might interfere with the promised resurrection of the body and its reunion with the soul. The most practical reason is that cremations were threatening to bring about serious wood shortages, since so much timber was being felled for pyres. The pagan Scandinavians favoured cremation, believing that it helped free the spirit from the flesh and also that it kept the dead from harming the living. After the Icelandic conversion to Christianity in ce , cremation was rare in western Europe until the 19th century, except in emergencies.
During an outbreak of the Black Death in , for example, the bodies of 60, victims were burned in Naples during a single week. In India and some other countries where the custom is ancient, cremation is considered very desirable. It is the wish of all devout Hindus to be incinerated in Varanasi. The waterfront of that holy city is lined with concrete and marble slabs on which pyres are erected. The remains are then deposited in the Ganges River.
Cremation ceremonies in Bali are colourful and gay. Forty-two days later a second tower, with effigies instead of bodies, is burned to assist the soul on its journey toward the highest heaven.
The ashes of the towers, like those of the bodies, are scattered on the water. Cremation in the modern manner is very different. Open fires are not used; instead, the body is placed in a chamber where intense heat transforms it in an hour or two to a few pounds of white, powdery ash that is disposed of in accordance with law and sentiment: scattered in a garden or some other preferred spot, placed in an urn and kept at home, or taken to a cemetery for burial in a small plot or placement in a columbarium.
He also organized the Cremation Society of England in association with Anthony Trollope , Sir John Tenniel , the dukes of Bedford and Westminster, and other articulate critics of burial practices. Although it was not until that a British court first ruled cremation a legal procedure , it won immediate support on both sides of the Atlantic.
For more than a century social and religious reformers had protested such practices as the long and sometimes disorderly wakes, or watches, held over the bodies of dead persons prior to burial. Physicians and sanitary engineers were alarmed at the practice of burial in cemeteries, holding the saturated burial grounds to be poisonous. The British movement prompted action in the United States, where the first crematorium was built in Washington, Pennsylvania, in Growth of the practice has been slow in the United States, however, where by the s only about 8 percent of the dead were cremated.
It has been more readily accepted in some European and Asiatic countries: the figure in England, Germany, and Denmark, for example, is more than 50 percent. In Japan, where cremation was illegal in , the practice has become almost universal. As the shortage of cemetery space in urban areas becomes more acute and as objections are answered, cremation may become the chief form of burial.
Many Protestant churches have actively supported it; the Roman Catholic church has announced that it is not prohibited. The Orthodox Jewish religion , however, continues to declare it forbidden. Cemetery owners and undertakers have also minimized their opposition, since cremation has proved no less profitable than more traditional methods of burial.
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