Register News-Pictorial (Adelaide, SA : 1929 - 1931), Wednesday 9 April 1930, page 22


VICAR GIVES DIRECTIONS ABOUT HIS BURIAL

Wants Hot Water Bottle In Coffin

(Register World Cables)

LONDON, Monday. — "When my time comes," writes the vicar of Thursley (the Rev. A. J. Wheeler) in the parish maga-zine, '"bury me in a lidless wooden box, which any one could make in half an hour, 'Let my people tuck me in wearing my cassock and surplice, with a Bible, Prayer Book, and a few bedside books— and don't forget my hot-water bottle, which has soothed many of my pains. 'The £50 saved by this simplicity should be distributed among my parishioners who are finding life's journey hard. "Modern death customs are abominable."