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cremation

noun as in burning

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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.

Then Heal STL was burned down Monday like a moribund body for cremation.

Cammue, 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.

Last 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.

It 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.

I used my Security papers to get the body for special autopsy instead of the usual immediate cremation.

Consequently, the poems are of one age, an age of cremation and of burial in barrows, with no ghost worship.

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On this page you'll find 5 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to cremation, such as: incineration, pyre, cineration, and incremation.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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