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Funeral Customs: Chapter XIV: Memorials, Epitaphs, Rings ...

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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.

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