A HUMAN BRICK.
Buried in Cement. The first human brick in historj7 was respectfully buried recently in Roxbtiry Cemetery, near Boston. The brick is composed of five parts of cement and one part of ashes. The ashes are tlmmortal remains of Herman Unger, who took his own life in a Boston Hotel. Pressed into the face ot the brick were these words: “Herman Unger. Leave me in peace. ’ ’ Unger was a travelling salesman from Pittsburg. Life did not go well with him, and his natural pessimism was only increased by hardship. He believed that the human body after death would be revived in the form of a flowering growth, which would spring from his mortal flesh. This thought was repulsive to him. He desired some disposition of his body, which would preclude any such resurrection. He left a will, in which he directed his corpse to be cremated, and that the ashes be mixed with sufficient cement to form a solid rock. This request was carried out, the brick being moulded in a small square box, and when it had nearly set the epitaph was cut into it.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 3769, 15 August 1907, Page 4
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188A HUMAN BRICK. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 3769, 15 August 1907, Page 4
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