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...commercial symbols . . . and rites are rapidly replacing the church, the candles and the Psalms. These are the plush carpet, the exalted open casket, the heavily scented banks of funeral flowers, the dim, indirect light, distant recorded syrupy music replete with chimes and vox humana, all centered in the new dominant architecture of almost every community, the funeral home and chapel...
...dominating concern for tiptoed entrances and exits, the emphasis on leakproof caskets, and the display of the physical remains artfully improved by cosmetics and specially tailored casket apparel, represent essentially a reversal of Christian belief and its candid committal of the material body to ashes and dust...
Cosmetology & Canisters. The commission's research turned up such a sign of the times as a crematory that delicately refers to ashes as "cremains." Other promotion-minded funeral homes were going in for uniformed casket-bearers and parking directors, cosmetology service by specialists interested in "achieving perfection in preparing the deceased for exhibition," and caskets equipped with a built-in canister for a vellum record of the accomplishments of the deceased...
...Embalming is not necessary except in delayed burials and except when casket is shipped by common carrier for non-local burial...
...simplest casket possible should be secured" and brought closed into the church immediately to wait for the service, "thus relieving the family of the distressing practice of open-casket viewing." ¶ "The burial service is a regular congregational service in the life of the church family . . . Since church services are integral centers of our parish life, fees to clergy, choir, organist or for use of church building for burial service must not be considered...