Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 March 1901 — Funerals Are Bad. [ARTICLE]

Funerals Are Bad.

2 hate funerals, and shall not go to my own If I can help it, writes a philosopher. Man is the only creature that is of no earthly use after death. We do not even allow him to fertilise the ground. In the economy of nature be should do this. Some women with nothing to do place puppy dogs on the same level, sealing them in lead and concrete. When we learn to burn ths dead and sprinkle the ashes on the roots of flowers and vegetables we shall have advanced several centuries along the line of civilization Certain eccentrics will that their ashes shall be scattered to the four winds of heaven and spilled in the depths of the sea, which is an approach to common sense and decency. Have you not noticed how luxuriant ia the botanic growth in a graveyard where poor folks are burled? Wooden coffins soon decay. One of the more popular roses had its origin in a graveyard, and took its name from the person in whose body its roots found sustenance.