CONTRACTED A CHILL.
MAN PREPARED TO DIE. PAYS CREMATION FEES. Mr Alexander Carlisle, who is an Irish member of the Privy Council, aged 72, contracted a chill while ho was spending a week-end at Doom as tho guest of. tho ex-Kaiser. His doctors warned him that he must not take risks. “When tho doctors told mo that,” he says, “I went to the Golder’s Green crematorium and paid for my cremation. I havo had tho receipt framed. I paid also for the use of tho chapel, tho chaplain’s fee Lor reading tho, burial service and the fee of tho organist, who has been ordered to play light German music. I have chosen the ‘Merry Widow Waltz.’ After a cremation it will be moro pleasant than tho ‘Dead March.’ “Nobody should want to live after reaching 70,” Mr Carlisle adds. “I havo no fear of death. The only man who fears death is tho man who wants to live after 70.”
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 45, 22 January 1926, Page 10
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