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SCANDAL. PAGAN RITUALS. A "FROTHINGHAM". This cremation has everything.
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This video was greatly informed by the book "Purified by Fire: A History of Cremation in America" by Stephen Prothero. Thank you Mr. Prothero for giving us all the BONKERS details on this fascinating history.
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SELECTED SOURCES
Purified by Fire: A History of Cremation in America Prothero, Stephen. University of California Press. 2001.
"Baron de Palm's Ashes: 1877" https://thevictorianbookofthedead.wordpress.com/2019/03/06/baron-de-palms-ashes-1877/
"Up in Smoke: Theosophy and the Revival of Cremation" https://www.theosophical.org/publications/quest-magazine/1684-up-in-smoke-theosophy-and-the-revival-of-cremation
"Why the First Cremation in the U.S. Was So Controversial" https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/why-the-first-cremation-in-the-us-was-so-controversial
"Why Cremation?" https://www.christiancentury.org/article/2011-11/why-cremation
"Ashes to Ashes: America’s First Crematorium" http://pabook2.libraries.psu.edu/palitmap/Crematory.html
"The Writing on the Wall" https://weelunk.com/the-writing-on-the-wall/
Death in the Afternoon -- "Crematory Whoopsies" (Sarah Chavez) https://deathintheafternoon.libsyn.com/crematory-whoopsies