Cremation

I WOULD very much
appreciate the opportunity to reply to those who have criticised my letter of February 10 on cremation. Miss TooneJackson (February 17) puts words into my mouth which I never spoke. I never said that cremation was "intrinsically evil", but that it is horrible, revolting and irreverent, which I still maintain.
"Crematorium Superintendent" (February 24), while writing more logically according to his own beliefs, nevertheless suggests that 1 am swayed by prejudice while his own pen-name leaves him wide open to the same accusation. would never suggest that Christian interment should be compulsory for those who prefer cremation, but strongly resent the tendency in England today towards the ultimate infliction by force of cremation for all.
This seemed an almost nonexistent danger while the Catholic Church remained adamant. As soon as the sheet anchor was taken away we see only too clearly what has happened. The figures quoted in Kevin Mayhew's column could only arouse the utmost consternation in the minds of those who have witnessed the solemn beauty of the Requiem Mass, and reflected that the grave. so far from being the end, is merely a preparation for the beginning.
Many saints have been exhumed and found after many years to be bodily incorrupt.
Harry Whitworth Wolverhampton