Purified by Fire
Subtitle: A History of Cremation in America
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: February 15, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780520208162
Subjects: Customs; Death & Dying; History of specific subjects; Religion; Funeral rites and ceremonies; Sociology; USA; Customs & Traditions; Religion / General; Cremation; History; Public opinion; United States
First sentence: ON DECEMBER 6, 1876, IN THE SMALL town of Washington, Pennsylvania, the corpse of Baron Joseph Henry Louis Charles De Palm went up in the flames in an event billed as the first cremation in modern America.
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