Editing Funeral (section)

====Wales====
Traditionally, a good funeral (as they were called) had one draw the curtains for a period of time; at the wake, when new visitors arrived, they would enter from the front door and leave through the back door. The women stayed at home whilst the men attended the funeral, the village priest would then visit the family at their home to talk about the deceased and to console them.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/wales/entries/9c24f1e1-d62c-3e28-a1db-7664cad06183|title=A good Welsh funeral|date=28 October 2010|website=BBC Wales}}</ref>

The first child of [[William Price (physician)|William Price]], a [[Wales|Welsh]] [[Neo-Druidism|Neo-Druidic]] priest, died in 1884. Believing that it was wrong to bury a corpse, and thereby pollute the earth, Price decided to cremate his son's body, a practice which had been common in [[Celts (modern)|Celtic]] societies.
The police arrested him for the illegal disposal of a corpse.<ref>{{cite news | url = http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2002/09/15/1032054710047.html?oneclick=true| title = Druid doc with a bee in his bonnet | access-date = 2007-02-03 | first = Tim | last = Harris | work = theage.com.au | date = 2002-09-16 | location= Melbourne}}</ref> Price successfully argued in court that while the law did not state that cremation was legal, it also did not state that it was illegal. The case set a precedent that, together with the activities of the newly founded Cremation Society of Great Britain, led to the ''Cremation Act 1902''.<ref>{{cite web|url= http://webapps.rhondda-cynon-taff.gov.uk/heritagetrail/english/taf/drwilliamprice.html|title= Doctor William Price|publisher= Rhondda Cynon Taf Library Service|access-date= 1 June 2012|archivedate= 18 August 2018|archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20180818052233/http://webapps.rhondda-cynon-taff.gov.uk/heritagetrail/english/taf/drwilliamprice.html|url-status= deviated}}</ref> The Act imposed procedural requirements before a cremation could occur and restricted the practice to authorised places.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.srgw.demon.co.uk/CremSoc3/StatutoryLaw/CAct1902.html | title = Cremation Act, 1902 | access-date = 2007-02-03 | archive-date = 2017-12-18 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20171218073527/http://www.srgw.demon.co.uk/CremSoc3/StatutoryLaw/CAct1902.html | url-status = dead }}</ref>