Grave Concerns
I've Moved! The Boomer Chronicles has closed after 6 years, but you can keep up with me on my new blog at http://www.rheabecker.com
It’s Monday, and we’re all back to work. What better time than this to think morbid thoughts?
As a journalist I’ve interviewed a lot of interesting people on a number of unusual topics. I learned once from a young woman who was working at historic Forest Hills Cemetery in my neighborhood of Jamaica Plain that cremation will soon surpass traditional burial as the preferred way to dispose of human remains.
I am lucky to live just a few blocks from Forest Hills. I contacted them and discovered that cremation at Forest Hills will set me back a thrifty $280. You can’t beat that!
October 10th, 2007 at 8:50 am
[...] The tour successfully laid to rest (so to speak) my fears about cremation. Here is some of the history I learned: Cremation is believed to have begun around 3000 B.C., most likely in Europe and the Near East. The practice spread around the world, until the modern cremation movement was launched after a cremation chamber was displayed at the 1873 Vienna Exposition. [...]