Advocate For Cremation
Pitt Rivers was also an advocate for cremation at a time when such a practice was illegal in England. Even though many people believed that it was immoral to destroy a corpse, the cremation movement favored a practical way to dispose of bodies.
Pitt Rivers was cremated after his death in 1900. (Cremation was formally legalized in Britain in 1902.)
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