Purified by Fire
Subtitle: A History of Cremation in America
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: November 4, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780520236882
Subjects: Death & Dying; History of specific subjects; United States - General; General; Sociology; Religion; USA; Customs & Traditions; Religion / General; Americas (North Central South West Indies)
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 flames in an event billed as the first cremation in modern America.