On Friday 21 Aug 2009 12:29:32 pm Supriya Nair wrote:
> Surely (electronic) cremation is
> gaining popularity because it's less of a bother on several levels than
> burial?
The USP of cremation is that it dos not require the reservation of real
eastate for your rotten remains for years after you are dead. The UK took up
cremation long ago because land for burial does not come cheap. But then the
UK turned pagan long ago.
I recall saying on Silk long ago that the first programmable hand-held
computer I bought (in 1985) was bouth using extra "ash-cash" I earned in the
UK. "Ash-cash" is extra money ("cremation fees") that junior dcotors were
paid to certify the deaths of people who were to be cremated - basically
saying "This is not a suspicious death and I have no pecuniary interest in
this death" - which is a half truth.
Doctors working on geriatric wards would have a couple of deaths every night
and could make a killing out of this (in those days)
shiv
