cremation
the act of reducing a dead body to ashes by fire, especially as a funeral rite:The others in the family want to have a private cremation, followed by a memorial service where we scatter the ashes.
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How to use cremation in a sentence
You can write notes and leave them under her hand to be cremated with her.
Britta Lokting interviews an entrepreneur trying to help save the climate by composting human bodies instead of burying or cremating them.
To think your way out of a crisis, look beyond it | Katie McLean | October 21, 2020 | MIT Technology ReviewThen Heal STL was burned down Monday like a moribund body for cremation.
The Baptism of Michael Brown Sr. and Ferguson’s Baptism by Fire | Justin Glawe | November 27, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTCammue, whose agency has now performed a thorough assessment of the current cremation process at Boystown, is extremely concerned.
"cremation is not necessary to have safe and dignified burial," Tarik Jasarevic tells me.
That is not an option for Tamerlan, as Islamic law prohibits cremation.
Katherine Russell, Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s Widow, Wants Nothing to Do With His Corpse | Michael Daly | May 5, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTLast November, for example, I managed to track down a celebrated tantric at a cremation ground near Birbhum in West Bengal.
Three hundred sesterces were expended on the funeral, fifty of which were to be distributed at the cremation of the body.
The Catacombs of Rome | William Henry WithrowIt is worth noting that a number of specimens were found in the cremation cemetery at Borgstedterfeld near Rendsburg.
I am sure if he had been asked, he would in some way have indicated that he preferred cremation to any other mode of disposal.
The Animal Story Book | VariousI used my Security papers to get the body for special autopsy instead of the usual immediate cremation.
Security | Poul William AndersonConsequently, the poems are of one age, an age of cremation and of burial in barrows, with no ghost worship.
Homer and His Age | Andrew Lang
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