Word: columbarium
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...dispose of a dead body decently costs for the undertaking $35 to $1,000; cremation, urn and a niche in a columbarium $50 to $10,000; a single grave lot, seldom more than $50; a modest headstone $50. A few crematists, to popularize their profession, are charging only $50 to perform all disposal functions from death bed to hole-in-the-wall. Cremation in a modern oil furnace takes only 90 minutes...
...crematist is Lawrence Frank (''Larry") Moore of Oakland. Calif., whose $500,000 crematory and columbarium were designed by Julia Morgan. Founder of the Cremation Association of America and the man whom Mr. Moore salutes as "the leader of the philosophical cremation movement." is Dr. Hugo Erichsen of Detroit, onetime neurologist, one-time medical director of Burroughs Adding Machine Co. Competition forced Dr. Erichsen to close his crematory in 1929. He still writes campaign material for the trade...