Plain and Inexpensive Funerals

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · May 22, 1884

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 10, No. 20.

Plain and Inexpensive Funerals

THE Occident says: "Plain and inexpensive funerals are coming into fashion, and a good fashion it is. Not long ago one of our prominent citizens was buried according to directions previous to his death, in a redwood coffin. We read that the late Baroness de Rothschild, who bequeathed half a million of dollars to general charities, was buried in a plain pine coffin, and there were no funeral ceremonies. What a mockery are all these flowers and hacks, and how foolish all this show and parade at funerals. It certainly does not help the dead, and it is of no earthly benefit to the living."