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Neath Port Talbot council said: "The crematorium grounds can no longer accommodate further interments alongside previous remains."

From BBC • Mar. 13, 2026

The statement called for demarcated and documented individual graves, saying hasty interments could lead to mental anguish for families as well as social and legal problems.

From Reuters • Sep. 15, 2023

Dedicated in 1848, it boasts more than 120,000 interments that include the graves of Union and Confederate soldiers, paupers and bourbon barons alike.

From Slate • Dec. 11, 2020

The District’s public disposition program provides cremations and interments of the indigent and unclaimed bodies.

From Washington Post • Apr. 26, 2019

In the earlier interments the 492 epitaph is usually daubed on the slab in red or black paint.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" by Various