SEQUEL TO CREMATION

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22057, 13 September 1933, Page 2

SEQUEL TO CREMATION

ASHES POSTED FOR BURIAL SECRET CEREMONY IN FRANCE. One of the most unorthodox interments ever known recently took place secretly in a picturesque little village ** somewhere in France.” , ~ . , An American who lately died in the United States expressed a wish to be buried in France, where he had lived many years. His remains were cremated, but the cost of sending to France the urn containing the ashes through ail undertaker was so heavy that the mans brother, who wished to comply with the request, could not afford it. So he sent the urn to a friend in France through the parcels post, at the cost of only 3s. _ Then came the problem of the burial. Another friend with a motor ear volunteered to help, and with the urn and its ashes in the car’s tool-box, the little party of the dead man's old friends in France buried his ashes in a secluded spot ivhere no one is ever likely to find them. Nobody had a prayer book, but one of the party had with him a copy of Omar Khayyam’s Rubaiyat, and so a service to the dead was improvised from appropriate verses by the Persian poet.