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IRISHMAN MAKES READY. CREMATION FEES PAID. LONDON January 10. Mr Alexander Carlisle, who is an Irish member of the Privy Council, aged 72, contracted a chill while he was spending a week-end at Doom ai: the guest of the ex-Kalser. His doctors warned him that ho must not take risks. “When the doctors told me that,” he says, “I went to the Golder’s Green crematorium and paid for my cremation. I have had the receipt framed. I paid also for the use of the chapel* the chaplain's fee for reading the burial service and the fee of the organist, who has been ordered to play light German music. I have chosen the ’Merry Widow Waltz’. After a cremation It will be more pleasant than the ‘Dead March.’ “Nobody should want to live afto» reaching 70/’ Mr Carlisle adds. “1 have no fear of death. The only man who fears death is the msn who wants to live after 70,*
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Manawatu Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 3249, 20 January 1926, Page 7
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