Word: crematorium
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Mehta's observations are that amusing. A French couple arrive at their consulate with their dead baby. They demand and get money for the infant's funeral but then leave the body at a crematorium with a note that reads, "A Present for the French Consul." Hippies lie stoned and malnourished on the beaches of Goa: a young European woman sits for days in a stupor with her fatherless child hanging onto a withered breast; a cult of ritual murderers, known as the Anand Marg, stalks the streets for victims; an American would-be rabbi buys...
...silver hearse carried his body from Dover, Del., to a crematorium in New Jersey. His ashes will eventually be scattered over the Atlantic. Thus were the Rev. Jim Jones' remains to be disposed of, one month after his body was found among 912 others at the grisly death scene he created in Guyana...
...burial-at-sea societies in the courts. Telophase is currently facing charges of unfair competition and a civil suit for not complying with the regulations of the California Cemetery Board. What is unfair, it seems, is that Telophase does not hold title to either a cemetery or a crematorium, has not posted a $25,000 endowment bond insuring proper plot care, and refuses to hire a licensed staff cemetery broker. "We have a chapel and an embalming room, and they cost money," objects one San Diego funeral director. "We have to provide certain things, and so should they...
Glinne's ire is focused on the case of tiny, traditionally Catholic Luxembourg. Because of historic church opposition to cremation, Luxembourg has no crematoriums of its own. Until mid-1968, when the Six abolished international customs and substituted a complex system of "taxes on value added" (T.V.A.), this was no great problem; when a Luxembourgeois who believed in cremation died, his family would simply have him taken across the French border to Strasbourg. But under T.V.A., French tax collectors consider cremation a taxable "service rendered to a private person." As a result, they now dun bereaved Luxembourgeois...
...that yanked gold teeth from the mouths of corpses (319,000 lbs. of gold from dental fillings, wedding rings and other jewelry were shipped to the Third Reich from Treblinka). He also pioneered the building of a so-called "grill" made of railroad rails that served as a primitive crematorium...