Cities of the Dead - Cremation and Modern Death

Cities of the Dead - Cremation and Modern Death

1. Cremation and the Cemetery Movement

   • Loudon
   • Walker
   • Mrs Holmes

2. Foreign Influence on British Cremation

   • India
   • Italy
   • Germany

3. Cremation Society of England 1874

   • Origins
   • Dr William Price 1884
   • First Cremation

4. Reasons for the Rise of Cremation

   • Increase in Utilitarianism
   • Fears of Disease
   • Decline of Cemetery Space

5. Cremation Today

6. End to English Way of Death?

   • Links to Declining Mourning Practice
   • Sanitised Death?
   • WW1 and decline of Victorian Values

7. Why did people oppose Cremation?

   • Fears for the Soul
     • Belief in Resurection
     • Association with Paganism and Heresy
   • Separation from Death