History of Cremation Flashcards
1000 BCE - “fire burial” becomes an elaborate part of this culture’s disposition; cremation “sets the soul free” to travel to the afterlife
ancient Greek
400 BCE to 1700 CE - era in which burial becomes accepted mode of disposition as cremation is only considered for public health reasons such as plague
rise of Christianity
1783 - first recorded pre-planned cremation in US (Charleston, SC)
Col. Henry Laurens
1873 - origin of modern cremation; this professor perfects his cremator and displays it at Vienna Exposition
Brunetti
1874 - he establishes the Cremation Society of England and publishes a manuscript stating cremation is “a necessary sanitary precaution against the propagation of disease”
Sir Henry Thompson
first crematory in US in 1876
LeMoyne Crematory
1884 - 2nd crematory in the US (Lancaster PA) conceived by this man; it was the first public crematory and was operated by a cremation society
Dr. Miles Davis
Cremation Association of America founded in ____ by ____
1913 by Dr. Hugo Erichsen
concept founded in 1927
memorialization
US cremation rate remains statistically “insignificant” (e.g. 0%) until ____
1938
Pope Paul VI ends the ban on cremation in Roman Catholic Church in ____
1963
1963 - this author published The American Way of Death
Jessica Mitford
FTC Funeral Rule is enacted in ____ and revised in ____
1984, 1994
Catholic Church changes its stance on cremated remains being brought to church and allows memorial masses
1997
in ____ NFDA reports US cremation rate statistically surpasses burial rate reaching 50.2%
2016
