Word: burial
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Anent your story, Decent Burial [TIME, Jan. 12], those genuinely concerned over the rackets which flourish upon the dead will be interested in the following...
...well-organized trend toward such sumptuous burial rites has increased ever since the development of modern embalming.* The trend has increasingly set ministers' teeth on edge. To many, such a long-faced travesty on Christian burial seems just as offensive as the frank vulgarity of the District of Columbia's "merry mortician," whose new calendar (see cut) proclaims "Beautiful Bodies by Chambers." In this week's Christian Century, Methodist Minister Edwin T. Randall tells of a community in which the ministers have organized to do something about...
Last week excited Soviet archeologists were studying a burial mound recently found in the Altai mountains near the boundary of Outer Mongolia. The mound showed a vivid glimpse of how the barbaric nomads buried an honored young woman some 2,000 years ago. Through the short summers of the Altai, the frozen tomb had preserved all its contents as if in a giant deepfreeze...
When man ceases to make his stomach a burial place for the bodies of dead animals, with the resultant collection of billions of bacteria from oxidation of those bodies; when he eats natural food-fruits, vegetables, whole grains and nuts; when he stops poisoning his body with alcohol, tobacco, "medicinal" drugs, manufactured carbonated drinks, and the gastronomical debris that passes for the full life in our day, then his bloodstream will be clean (and unsludged!), his body will be well and will function as the wonderful and fearful machine that...