The greatest change in the post-Victoria era, of course, has been not aesthetic, but the gradual acceptance of cremation (first proposed by a few radical thinkers in the late 19th century).
"The thing that bugs me is that allegedly the staff at the crematorium were so shocked every time they did a cremation with infant remains they told superiors," she said.
But we couldn't bear to leave her behind somewhere, so the only other option was cremation.
Her second book, What Happened to Daddy's Body?, also deals directly and sensitively with the realities of burial and cremation.
Rhiannon said the most painful moment had been when she realised that Kate's cremation may well have left remains.
Burial was the norm; cremation a peculiar foreign custom.
Therefore, cremation and burial on land or sea are unacceptable.
After their service to science, the donors' bodies are returned to UTS, where their final wishes – burial, cremation or otherwise – are carried out.
Despite their misgivings they went ahead with the cremation.
The Parsis who prefer cremation over the solar concentrators want only to be allowed last rites and prayers in this three-centuries' sanctified place of solace, even if in a segregated 'bungli'.
After Girija Prasad Koirala's death on March 20th, at the age of 86, thousands of Nepalis watched his funeral cortège carry his body to its cremation.
