Salt Lake Telegram | 1929-07-07 | Page 27 | Vienna Easily Leads in Low Cost of Dying

VIENNA EASILY LEADS IN LOW LO C SJ f DI DYING G Most Funerals Funeral There Less Leis Than 15 Each 75 Deat Deaths l Daily J VIENNA A. A July 6 G United Press To To liv hive In in Vienna is cx expensive especially if It one ones is a 3 but butto to die here her is Is' Is q quite ite another thing Funerals cost less les in hi this former former scat of or the the 1 than In any large largo city city- In Jn the world No funeral costs very Cly mu much h hun un unless unless unless un un- less something especially elaborate and extraordinary Is specifically y ordered or dered Most funerals cost only a little more nore tb than n 14 H nn and tho the average average aver aver- age for all funerals Is only a a. fc few n cents cents mor more than than 69 Vienna is r ruled by a a. socialist government gov gO which its opponents opponents' say I knows Imo more about ways and rid means to keep the population poor than an any other othet city government any an- where n Regardless of finances durIng during dur dur- ing tug an individuals individual's life however the city elty fathers make dying iJ a a. bl bit easier casler for those thoughtful persons who In their last hours worry over o the tile sacrifices s which their loved ones will have to make In order t to bury them decently The shadow of ot no conscienceless undertaker hovers over the bed of of a a. dying Viennese to tomake tomake tomake make his demise yet more painful Of or each death In Vienna the time authorities au au- au- au must be informed l immediately imme Imme- and within six hours after arter death the body of the deceased person person person per per- son must be removed from the house to a a municipal mortuary No kind ot of death watch wat h or 01 wake wake- is al allowed allowed at- at lowed in hi any home On the thu day of or the funeral a municipal motor hearse Js Is provided to transfer the body to h cemetery for burial or to the crematorium Private U undertaking estabi establish ish meats exist but they are compelled to kc keep p their prices down In order to get any business at all aU By far tar the greater s-reater part of ot the time seventy five dally daily burials are handled by the so socialist socialist so- so municipality's establishment at the price of oC Austrian schillings lIchU- lIchU schillings lings less than 15 each During time the past twelve o months the municipal 1 pal 1 motor hearses covered a a. distance distance distance dis dis- dis- dis tance twenty three times that be between between be- be tween Vienna and New Ne York Of or the seventy five persons who die each day in Vienna eleven en havo have only the fatal tatal complications usually designated by men as as old age eleven others are aro victims of or tuberculosis and nine of ol cancer Approximately half halt the deaths here are accidental approximately two dally daily are aro suicidal the suicidal the attempts at suicide being about 50 per cent suc suc- An ever Increasing number number num num- ber of ot bodies are cremated each year eal In behalf behal of cremation the socialist party part wages a continual campaign n. this campaign being partly hygienic and partly aimed against the l influence of ot the Catholic church