SPIRITUALISTS’ PLEA

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 13 September 1928, Page 5

SPIRITUALISTS’ PLEA

DELAY CREMATION. LEST SPIRIT SHOULD SUFFER THE ADVENTURE OF DEATH. Umred press Association— By Electric Telegiapt Copyright.) , (Australian Press Association.) LONDON, Sepi:. 11. Speakers at the .spiritualist congress have taken a definite view that unless cremation is delayed' three- days after death the spirit which has just beer, liberated might suffer. They claimed '.hat many scientists reasoned from the. material viewpoint, ignoring the soul and latter-life. Spirituallists maintained that the physical body, which was the only one officially known to science, had subtle bodlie» which inkerpenetrated the material After the adventure of death decomposition and disintegration of the matenilail- elements fey cremation should fee avoided at least for three days. Except in cases where the body was absolutely dead cremation might cause suffering. Speakers, added it was a greater shock to the .soul when death was accidental. than when it was natural . I lie time necessary for physical dissolution varied according to the evolution of the individual.