Cultural inertia (Prothero pg 128), high capital expenses (Prothero pg 129), popularization of lawn-park and memorial park cemeteries which addressed overcrowding, unsanitariness, and ugliness of urban graveyards (Prothero pg 129), the inauguration of the mausoleum also promoted as more sanitary than burial (Prothero pg 130), failure of cremation to win imprimatur of the state (Prothero pg 130), lingering memories of its early radicalism (Prothero pg 130) and an assortment of vulgar utilitarinism (Prothero pg 131-132), diffidence of women (Prothero pg 132), undertakers who sought to protect their trade (Prothero pg 133), Catholics and traditional Christians who insisted cremation threatened long-standing Christian beliefs and practices (Prothero pg 134), cremationists did a poor job persuading working class Americans to reject burial (Prothero pg 136), the insistence of many crematory operators on cremating only whites (Prothero pg 136).