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Show mm mm Isabel Basnett Leads Discussion Dis-cussion and Says England Should Copy S witzerland. Kpe-lnl 0W to Tko Trth.in. I.ONUOX. ,j,,y is. A citation is l,e-Xa l,e-Xa etrU,d nD h.-re agnian tho expensive ex-pensive funnral. Isabel Basnett thicks I.iKlaml shoul.l copy Switzerland in thi.s n-.spr-.-t. Hhfl I'.vini,' is sin. -,!,: enough, but tho f-T:t of ti.ath i, h,-,,,d around 'viLh u,.r,tirion an.l oust. una. fiplo strick,-n with Kri,f (Jft,.n ia!l victims to a vst.-oi ivhi.-h i8 driven by a.-nt.i competition to ycur s laii; a profit as possible Iron, tno dispofal of ti, duad Tho t'l-cater tho rriot' thu Inrr the profits, i, a J.-t.-nri that rni-ht wll be written ti.e hills of "i;inV undertaking concerns, t.onld wo rr-du.-o to fiKurus the manner In whi.-h the livinj aro faenhr-d to the d.-ad wo .should be 1 "ho.-ki-d and horrified. To the ' well-ofr man rl.-ath has no pe- -..,u,iry terror which fr.-cs him to a form of thrift which ho should notbo called upon to praclico. Kerry year 53,Ooo,uijo in sub-frlhr-d in pennies to burial 80-ciefi,-, i J-ln-land. VVhat is beintr done? Switzerland Switzer-land is (he Country which has, up to the present time, done most to point the way to the reform of luni-ral undertakincs. Tho clear-tinnkinir clear-tinnkinir Swiss people regard every death as a public, bur. Ion, which should be borne to somo extent hy the whole community in the interests inter-ests of tho common health and well-hcnij;, ,ind not wholly by tho relatives of the deceased person o find, therefore, that certain Mates or cantons givo to every , dead citizen "a f,-e0 decent burial, including a simple coffin, ; """tru services, a plain aearso and a enrriajro for tho relations rela-tions and fnmily. Jf anr0no do-sires do-sires more show or ceremony they cn ii have it at a price strictly 1 ' ' 1 1 ,,m'". hv tho authorities, but only municipal carriages aro al-owed al-owed to pass through the cemetery ceme-tery ..fites. |