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Word: beel (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...complaints that it was not fair to require anyone to express his wishes about cremation in advance. Home Affairs Minister Louis J. M. Beel pleaded: "A codicil is a simple note ... 'I want my body to be burned,' date, signature, nothing more . . . One can carry it in his pocket or his wallet, one can put it in his desk. One can entrust it to his relatives or his cremation association . . . What's simpler than making a codicil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Burning of Bodies | 2/21/1955 | See Source »

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