The cremation of the dead - considered from an aesthetic, sanitary, religious, historical, medico-legal, and economical standpoint by Hugo Erichsen

Author:Hugo Erichsen [Erichsen, Hugo]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: anboco
Published: 2017-02-16T23:00:00+00:00

THE MILAN CINERARIUM.

Incineration in war-time should be obligatory—must be so in fact. At present, cremation in portable furnaces is out of the question, because it would take too long. Only the bodies of prominent officers might be thus cremated and sent to the rear, so that they might rest under a monument erected by the grateful people of the country that they served. Under the existing circumstances, I think Creteur’s method would be the best. By this means, several hundred bodies could be destroyed at once. There ought to be a cremation corps in every division of an army. Better yet it would be to organize a neutral society, like the Red Cross Association, and call it the Society of the Black Cross. The members might wear a black cross on their caps and on the left arm. After a battle, the various corps of this society would begin their work, gathering the dead and committing them to the flames. Thus we would protect our brave soldiers, who offer up their lives for their beloved country and our sake, from pestilence and disease.

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