{"collection":"ETC Sacred Texts","full_text_available":false,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_etc_fcod_fcod17_htm/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/sacred_texts_v1_etc_fcod_fcod17_htm","id":"sacred_texts_v1_etc_fcod_fcod17_htm","license":"unknown_pending_legal_review","rights_basis":"sacred_texts_v1_preview_gate_primary_text_only; acquisition-method/ToS and compilation-copyright questions still open, not resolved by this gate","source":"sacred_texts_v1","source_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/etc/fcod/fcod17.htm","summary":"AT a time when a lavish expenditure on \"memorials\" of various kinds has taken place, we shall do well if we consider the origin of a very old custom. When we have stripped any one of our funeral observances of its crape and tinsel--those graveclothes of convention in which they have been preserved and embalmed--we shall find very little that is worthy of continuance. Any excessive manifestation of grief is the outcome of self-pity and disbelief in a spiritual existence.","tags":[],"text":null,"title":"Funeral Customs: Chapter XIV: Memorials, Epitaphs, Rings ...","tradition":"ETC Sacred Texts","translated_text":null,"word_count":5368}