Between 1914 and 1960, burials occurred on school grounds in an area known as "Boot Hill," where white crosses commemorating 31 burials were placed decades later.
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I was on one mission to North Korea in 2002, up at the Chosin Reservoir, and what we typically found were battlefield burials: small mass graves, foxhole burials.
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The comparable figures for New York were 51.8 percent for burials and 41.9 percent for cremations, and in New Jersey, 303 percent for burials and 41.9 percent for cremations.
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Officials at several city agencies involved in the burials refused interview requests to discuss the issue and insisted that no data or any other information was available on AIDS burials.
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Parents' lives and children's burials are left to do that.
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Floating cemeteries and space burials: Asia's futuristic take on death
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The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada has Mexican immigrants, an
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ROYAL burials are just not what they used to be.
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"No intact burials were encountered or disturbed," Mr. Pappalardo said.
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Burials have been hidden from the public gaze for years.
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Individual burials are within round mounds, additionally marked by stones.
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Burials for victims of the Sinai mosque bombing began on Saturday.
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That's because green burials, alternative and eco-friendly practices are popularizing.
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In Beijing, there were 1,85.23 cases of sea burials in 2014.
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Crusader burials are rare, and these weren't in the best condition.
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The Associated Press: Mourning and protests as Pittsburgh begins victims' burials.
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By some estimates, he said, they may have surpassed traditional burials.
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Under Islam it is customary to conduct burials within 24 hours.
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The ultra-Orthodox also control all Jewish marriages, burials, and conversions.
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Mr. Bawumia told the bereaved families the government would provide burials.
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" Burials "average between 2,000 – 3,000 yearly (the total for both categories).
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The recent discovery would bring the number of known burials to 2800.
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None of the burials exhibited conspicuous signs of hierarchies or social inequalities.
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There are still probably burials that are underground in the other half.
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Flags used at burials typically do not have any rope or hardware.
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Most of its burials had headstones with names, dates and sometimes epitaphs.
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Taiwan has similar limits, and has long encouraged cremations and eco-burials.
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Do you think it's important for Arlington to continue to offer burials?
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The team also found evidence of two more burials of premature babies.
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A network of former military peers helps provide dignified ceremonies and burials.
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But an increase in burials is not the only concern for cemeteries.
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For weeks, families have been holding burials all over the island nation.
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Like home funerals, green burials closely mimic how we once handled death.
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In 1912, San Francisco announced that it would do more than ban burials.
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Burials were recorded in the cemetery as late as 1850, Ms. Wilkins said.
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Some local news channels reported late Thursday night that the burials were complete.
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Why am I the first American to write about the burials in Reggio?
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For urban cemeteries running short of space for burials, cremation offers a reprieve.
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Dozens of graveyards in Israel have already closed their gates to new burials.
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Because of mass burials and disintegrated coffins, many of the remains had scattered.
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Burials in coffins, Regnier says, are picked up more strongly by radar technology.
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The toll, he said, was also confirmed by people who attended the burials.
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The researchers mounted a two-week salvage excavation, recovering more than 80 burials.
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These symptoms may have been linked to food disruptions after a volcanic eruption known to have occurred before the burials, but the team said it will take more evidence to definitively determine a link between the eruption and the burials.
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At least 20 graves have been uncovered, including many lavish burials belonging to women.
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The university set up a fund to help the families pay for the burials.
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When it came to burials, people came out voluntarily in a very short time.
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It would have been interesting to get into the nitty gritty of space burials.
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Burials have been banned in the overflowing public graveyards of the largest city, Karachi.
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The burials are expected to take place on Thursday, government spokesman Cornelius Deveaux said.
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The Red Cross is handling safe burials of those who succumb to the disease.
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People continued to attend burials and touch the dead as part of local customs.
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They are more commonly found among skeletons in mass burials from the Viking Age.
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Burials within city limits were finally banned in 1780, after two decades of attempts.
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Critically that means early diagnosis, early isolation, safe burials and understanding the social context.
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Soldiers and an armored personnel carrier lined the roads as the burials took place.
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He estimated that 222 years ago, one in 2000 burials needed such a coffin.
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It handles three major categories for America's veterans: medical care, benefits and burials/memorials.
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Both have taken pains in recent years to find additional space for ground burials.
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The cones also may only have been included in some burials under specific circumstances.
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People who choose at-home death care typically opt for cremation and green burials.
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It contains five entrances that open onto a courtyard with a pair of shaft burials.
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Except for one set of ashes in the 1970s, the Bleecker burials stopped after 1884.
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"Each of those remains could fit in a shoebox," Kelder says of these older burials.
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Customers pay up to $30,000 for burials at the base of redwoods or other trees.
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Following Muslim tradition that encourages burials as soon as possible, residents scrambled to complete them.
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These so-called deviant burials were likely not deviant to those who participated in them.
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The legislation reportedly would increase the financial benefits related to burials and funerals of veterans.
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Many visitors apologized for having shown up so late, busy with other funerals and burials.
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Most burials in Zahra's paradise happen in a section where graves are stacked in threes.
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Mass burials in Indonesia, a near-collision in the South China Sea, President Trump's inheritance.
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On Tuesday in Chimanimani, burials were held for some of the victims of the storm.
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Shortages of wood and metal for coffins and cement for graves have complicated traditional burials.
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The land is flat, but the soil is excellent, and allowed the Cahokians to construct 120 huge mounds — the conical ones were for burials, the platform mounds for habitation, and long, triangular ones, called ridgetop mounds, that might have been built for defense or burials.
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It also asks cities to provide incentives for degradable urns, scattering ashes and burials at sea.
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The grave also contained ceramic utensils, which were typically placed in Hun burials, the archaeologists added.
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They also unveiled subsidies to promote the dissemination of ashes through burials at sea and land.
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Strangely, he was buried face down, which is rare but not unheard of in medieval burials.
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Grave robbers hit other ancient burials on Sikinos, which is part of the Cyclades island group .
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Mass burials took place as President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo called for three days of national mourning.
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In 2150, there were 2000,25 burials at the Hayward cemetery, down from nearly 2000,0003 in 2000.
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Although the cemetery closed for burials nearly 50 years ago, descendants still visit their ancestors' graves.
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Another issue for responders will be handling significantly more burials and cremations than they usually handle.
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But burials stopped in 1853, and around 1887, the cemetery was turned into a public garden.
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Last year, Cemetery Administration officials said benefits were paid for the burials of 390 unclaimed veterans.
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After the visit in June 2017, Aecom dug all summer, eventually discovering another 328 intact burials.
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These decorative plaques and handles have helped to date many burials to the 1720s to 1790s.
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Green burials do away with both the embalming chemicals and the extraneous cement, steel or other non-biodegradable materials conventional burials put into the earth, and lack the carbon footprint of cremation, which has been calculated to be the equivalent of a 500-mile car journey.
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As for the pit, a funerary seal makes it clear that it was built for ceremonial burials.
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Others allege that they were not permitted to see the bodies of murdered loved ones before burials.
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In sum, the burials exhibited "a general sense of disorganization," as the researchers noted in their study.
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On Wednesday, villagers attacked an ambulance, injuring 3 Red Cross workers and halting their assistance in burials.
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In 1963, after centuries of insisting on full-body burials, the Vatican lifted the ban on cremation.
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Initial control efforts are focusing on tools such as surveillance and monitoring, safe burials and case management.
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To prevent spread of the infectious disease, safe burials require protective equipment and sanitizing the family's environment.
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Ebola victims are most infectious just after they've died, so traditional burials were helping spread the disease.
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It is the nearest cemetery devoted solely to Islamic burials — and, he said, it is filling up.
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Another clue pointing to human help: Native Americans painted foxes on rocks and gave them ceremonial burials.
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Traditional grave burials gave way to cremation, and the use of columbaria to store urns with ashes.
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Mass burials began in Sri Lanka for the more than 210 people killed in Sunday's suicide attacks.
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Then, after a steady stream of vigils, burials, and funeral receptions, it was time to go back.
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But cremations allow Woodlawn to put unused spaces — too small to accommodate conventional burials — to profitable use.
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He was wearing the thin white robe everyone in the church wears for baptisms, Lettings, and burials.
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However, the center plans to conduct more research on "deeper burials" in the future, just to make sure.
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The government in recent days has repeatedly emphasized that all mass burials will take place in individual graves.
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The government calls scattering ashes "green burials" despite the fact the body is still burned and emits carbon.
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Centuries-old practice renewed But today such burials are rare, replaced by coffins or artificial concrete burial places.
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But the first burials will take place in late-2017, Shachor said, when the first passages are completed.
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A recent visitor complained that the story of slave burials and segregation was "sad" and shouldn't be discussed.
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I spoke with Mark Harris, an environmental reporter who wrote a book on green burials called Grave Matters.
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Thus, the rise in America of "green burials," where bodies are wrapped in biodegradable material and not embalmed.
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After it became clear that the cadavers were not contagious, AIDS bodies became part of the mass burials.
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Immediate family members are permitted to observe burials, but no more than 10 people are allowed to attend.
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We also have five easy steps to record your family history, and an illustrated guide to green burials.
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The morning news meeting the next day, where the team discussed plans for covering the burials, was quiet.
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Modern burials and death practices are changing how we die and where our bodies go after we die.
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The Omars denied any knowledge of the burials, but the family knew Mr. Omar was no longer safe.
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Many of us want pine box coffins, green burials or cremations with our ashes tossed in beautiful places.
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There was much to consider: holding proper burials, addressing the families of victims, relaying details from the police.
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Ardern said she will meet with first-responders and victims' families on Wednesday as they prepare for burials.
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Most early burials were of ordinary soldiers whose families could not afford to have their remains shipped home.
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Burials and cremation harm the environment, as toxic chemicals from both processes seep into the air and soil.
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If the burials continue and the land is managed by Parks, it will become a model urban cemetery.
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Grewal praised the medical examiner for ensuring their burials and autopsies were in keeping with their religious traditions.
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"There are some burials under the altar, but they're not formal crypts in the way the movie portrays."
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One between 3500 and 4000 B.C. involved passage graves, which have a corridor and allow for multiple burials.
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Image: Archaeological SolutionsIn most Roman-era cemeteries in England, archaeologists expect to find some culturally unconventional burials, but as Peachey told the BBC, it's quite rare to find such a high proportion of deviant burials at a single site, suggesting the presence of a specific population with a specific burial tradition.
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Furnished burials belonging to males were also identified, including a number buried with weaponry such as spears and shields.
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The burials continued even as the church was knocked down and replaced by the current Gothic structure in 7003.
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A GoFundMe page was set up for the victims by their friends and family to help in their burials.
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For Muslim Bosniaks, Srebrenica has become a symbol of collective suffering and July burials of victims an annual ritual.
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It had deployed more than 100 experts to Mangina and Beni towns to oversee tracing, vaccination and safe burials.
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Burials can be costly and time-consuming, a burden on family members who may hardly know the deceased relative.
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The ministry will not return bodies until the families agree to hold burials and funerals outside the city limits.
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He was one of two burials wrapped in tule reed matting in the cave, joined by some 67 artifacts.
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And, having seen how moving simple burials like these can be, more funeral directors are advocating for them, too.
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As a result, some volunteers conducting or even promoting safe burials were attacked, their vehicles vandalized and homes stoned.
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The first victims were buried on Wednesday and burials continued on Thursday, with the funeral of a school boy.
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Today, Birka is known as the site of one of the largest groupings of burials from the Viking Age.
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When it comes to green burials, funeral professionals say the biggest challenge is a lack of awareness and resources.
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Amid rumors and misunderstandings, health workers have struggled to explain the importance of safe burials and other preventive measures.
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The starting point of the film is that, in 2018, cremations overtook ordinary, mostly very expensive burials in America.
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Eco-friendly burials are not necessarily cheaper, but consumers may save on coffins, grave lining costs and funeral fees.
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Green burials have risen in popularity, with growing demand for caskets that biodegrade and ceremonies that leave no trace.
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Difficult to access, managed by the Department of Correction, the mass grave of over a million burials remains obscure.
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That's because this isn't a spa—it's a boutique selling urns, biodegradable caskets and other items for natural burials.
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LONDON (Reuters) - London's Westminster Abbey has hosted royal weddings as well as burials and memorials for numerous famous British subjects.
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Without "proper" Christian burials, enslaved people were buried far in the woods, slipped into the swamps, or burned in piles.
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In the U.S. alone, 30 million board feet of casket wood is used annually for burials, according to Scientific American.
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Couple burials like the one in Rakhigarhi have long been a source of fascination and fierce speculation, the scientists added.
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Since detailed records of the burials were not kept, officials do not know how many bodies remain on the land.
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"We don't wait for burials in order to plant trees, but we do it regularly as community members," he said.
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"They published these as Philistine burials or tombs or graves, but most of them are poppycock or balderdash," he said.
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The home, where unmarried women were sent to have babies, recorded no burials for hundreds of children who died there.
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Private burials were difficult to arrange because many funeral directors either refused to handle AIDS corpses or charged higher fees.
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Jeff Jorgenson, who owns Elemental Cremation and Burial in Washington, said forgoing embalming is a crucial part of green burials.
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The victims: On Tuesday, the country observed a full day of mourning and began the first mass burials of victims.
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The funeral directors' association said 44.3 percent of the deaths in Connecticut ended in burials and 43.4 percent in cremations.
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One believes they were migrants like them who hadn't made it, the bodies from shallow burials, exhumed by the wind.
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There are no monuments or gravestones marking the nearby cemetery, where the last burials occurred more than a century ago.
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Referred to as "natural" or "green" burials, these types of burials do away with traditional caskets and cremation in favor of putting bodies directly in the ground (in artisan shrouds, cardboard caskets, or one of many biodegradable casket options.) There's no embalming, and there are also environmentally-friendly burial urns if cremation is still preferable.
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The Chinese authorities have been encouraging frugal burials in recent years in the face of land shortages and exorbitant cemetery prices.
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They say that they are haunted by the number of unidentified migrant burials they have carried out in the past year.
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It is not long before hundreds are dying each day: funerals are replaced by swift unceremonial burials behind closed cemetery gates.
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In Gaza War Cemetery lie 3,217 Commonwealth burials from World War One, and more than 200 from the World War Two.
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But having already carried out three burials since it came into effect, Dawa is not optimistic that his work is over.
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Those cases, discovered during an investigation by The New York Times into Hart Island burials, shocked surviving family members and friends.
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Sandy Gibson, Better Place's co-founder and chief executive, said the company's mission is to offer an alternative to traditional burials.
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After the Civil War, Mount Zion became a grazing ground for the horses of Washington's Metropolitan Railroad, even as burials continued.
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As scientific research supports green solutions such as the Capsula Mundi, environmental awareness is also breaking down cultural barriers around burials.
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Their remains were uncovered during excavations that ran from 2014 to 2016, and resulted in the discovery of 11 human burials.
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Community members stoned workers from the nonprofit Global Communities who tried to collect the dead for safe burials during that outbreak.
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Speaking to the BBC, Peachey said there's "nothing particularly macabre" about the burials, and that they weren't the result of executions.
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The first donkeys were probably domesticated about 6,000 years ago, and their importance was evident in those 5,000-year-old burials.
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There is a long waiting list for burials, and coffins were stacking up at two hospital morgues and a cemetery morgue.
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The Order of the Good Death, a collective of funeral professionals, academics and artists, has an informative page about green burials.
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Without that connection, people will continue to avoid testing and treatment, and decline help in carrying out safe funerals and burials.
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In some parts of Zimbabwe, burials of chiefs are a secret affair and people are only told the resting place afterwards.
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We also have had decades of observing the rituals of death — hospitals and hospice, funerals, burials and the communal meals afterward.
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Under those restrictions, Arlington would probably conduct fewer burials in a year than it does right now in a single week.
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Clearly there was a complex set of traditions around these burials including decapitation at some time before or after initial burial.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Saqqara is an ancient Egyptian site that was used for burials over thousands of years.
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The settlement also contained traces of six LBK longhouses and regular burials, most of which hold just one person and LBK artifacts.
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The confrontations in Jiangxi occurred after several of its counties said they would allow no more burials after the end of August.
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The Times had to use a drone to record burials when the city denied permission for a reporter to witness the scene.
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Victorian ostentation gives way to embalming and a lifelike appearance for open caskets, to cremation and scattering of ashes, to green burials.
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The big picture: The cemetery is the most prominent of its kind in the country, and sees around 7,000 burials a year.
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The number of burials annually on Hart Island do not align neatly with AIDS deaths from year to year during the epidemic.
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And although he was not in the military, Mr. Howell received tributes common to the burials of people in the armed services.
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All elements of religious life — from the kosher certification of food to conversion to marriages and burials — are controlled by the rabbinate.
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And now, for the first time, more Americans are being cremated than having traditional burials, according to the National Funeral Directors Association.
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He and other volunteers help schedule burials and organize viewings by engaging funeral homeowners to provide services for little or no fee.
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Both East End and Evergreen Cemetery, which lies in the City of Richmond, were established because "white" cemeteries wouldn't accept black burials.
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Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto -- who said this week Trump should forestall a visit while burials begin -- also did not appear with Trump.
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A similar law requiring fetus burials passed last spring in Indiana, but a judge blocked it from going into effect in June.
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Venezuelans have shifted toward cremations, which cost about a third of burials, but growing demand has crematories struggling to obtain natural gas.
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He added that 71 of the victims had been formally identified, and that authorities had started releasing bodies to the families for burials.
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Families will need a death certificate in order to obtain a burial permit, and health workers will be allowed police protection during burials.
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A discovery in Sudan from an earlier date found burials of victims of intergroup violence, but that society may have been more settled.
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Other research indicates Neanderthals used complex hunting methods, spoken language, pigments for body painting, employed fire in a sophisticated way and performed burials.
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Laboratories remain closed, surveillance teams can't track alerts in the community, safe and dignified burials can't proceed, vaccination activities are temporarily suspended, etc.
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The first priority for Kimmerle, who led the original 2012 excavation at Dozier, is determining whether or not the anomalies are human burials.
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Graves such as these are referred to as "deviant burials," as they're out of alignment with most graves left behind by a culture.
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Many of the grave markers made of more valuable stone have been stolen, destined to be sanded blank and resold for future burials.
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Treatment, vaccination programmes and safe burials of victims have been disrupted by a surge in violence and abiding local mistrust of health directives.
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Matt Drury, director of government relations for the Parks Department, said the department would support the transfer once the city curtailed burials there.
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In the metropolitan region, traditional burials still outnumbered cremations in 2015, the last year for which statistics are available — but not by much.
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International agencies are sending protective equipment for health workers, body bags to enable safe burials, chlorine-spraying equipment, water treatment kits and medicines.
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"We are trying to make arrangements that it be done in a proper way, the burials, the notifications to the families," he said.
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The Hillsborough County school district said Wednesday that geophysical technicians found "clear evidence" of burials at the Clarence Leon King High School campus.
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A career in burials and cremation also fires his poetic imagination — I'm sorry, but Lynch also savors puns about rigor mortis and cremation.
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In madrassas and at religious gatherings, the faithful are urged to murder Ahmadi Muslims, desecrate their mosques, prevent their burials and annul their marriages.
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Fuelling tension in the cities are local mistrust and attacks by rebel groups that have disrupted treatment, burials and vaccination programs in recent weeks.
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"International support is needed to allow for dignified burials," says Lama Fakih, the Middle East and North Africa deputy director for Human Rights Watch.
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For one thing, they often organize burials with full honors for people killed in combat in Syria and Ukraine, and publish eulogies about them.
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A lawyer with the Texas Attorney General's office told the court "there is no language on individual cremations or individual burials" in the regulation.
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Mourners in Pittsburgh are attending a sorrowful round of funerals, burials and communal gatherings for the 210 victims of the synagogue massacre last weekend.
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Victims: Mass burials began as details about those killed began to emerge — including a celebrity chef, a mother at Mass and a fifth grader.
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The anchorwomen Marzia Hafizi and Shogofa Danish talked viewers through a split-screen broadcast of the two burials, in two different parts of town.
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Burials began on this site in the 1830s, and the interred include several Singaporean pioneers, men and women who settled and built the island.
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Mr. Moylan said eight other churches had bought space for burials at Green-Wood; he said he did not foresee any more buyback deals.
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A scan was also done on the northeast corner of the campus, though investigators did not find evidence of any burials in that area.
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Among his other duties, Sergeant Uhl, 45, plays taps at military burials — a vital role, especially because there is a growing shortage of buglers.
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Craig Warner, a Texas Attorney General's office lawyer, told the court "there is no language on individual cremations or individual burials" in the regulation.
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She said that the archaeologists had found about 160 burials to date at their excavation site, which is in the heart of modern Sidon.
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Typical American burials involve pumping a body full of synthetic fillers and formaldehyde, a carcinogen, to preserve a corpse and make it look alive.
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HaloLife – Online funeral planning 123,000 people die a day in American, and their families spend $21 billion a year on their funerals, burials, and cremations.
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The burials will be the first in the cemetery's Millennium Expansion, which plans to add nearly 30,000 burial sites and niche spaces to the site.
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One of the more interesting aspects of the graves was the "significant proportion of very lavish burials" associated with the women buried at Lincolnshire Wolds.
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There were so many that they began to decompose in the tropical heat, prompting the government to order mass burials over the following two days.
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In a bid to buy more time, the government announced mass burials on Thursday and Friday, when more than 300 victims were laid to rest.
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Why it matters: From 2020, people can choose to have their body turned into soil after their death, as an alternative to cremations and burials.
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But many millennials like Scheffler (plus their baby-boomer parents) are becoming more interested in the simple but meaningful services non-traditional burials can provide.
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Last year, for the first time, the rate of cremations in the United States surpassed that of burials, according to the National Funeral Directors Association.
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Balarabe Lawal, secretary to the state government in Kaduna, told the inquiry that the bodies in the secret mass burials were those of sect members.
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Residents reported sporadic shelling in the area of the fighting on Wednesday, as rain and burials for the dead kept a lid on military activities.
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It has never been clear — and it may never be — what happened to hundreds of other burials that were known to have taken place there.
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The department uses a network of volunteers to help plan ceremonies and burials for about 50 veterans a year who die alone and in poverty.
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He said the traditionalist view is more common internationally, and that for example, in India, people have been denied Christian burials if they committed suicide.
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The small town's cemetery is struggling to figure out how to manage burials for the more than two dozen victims of Devin Kelley's killing spree.
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She's not even sure if she, or Mr. Mishima for that matter, will be around for any of the burials that occur at the tomb.
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As the first mass burials unfolded in Sri Lanka on Tuesday, with bulldozers making space for the hundreds of new graves, grief hardened into anger.
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But none of those burials was anything like the mummified green hand Dr. Balázs and his colleague, Zoltán Bölkei, had uncovered in that forgotten box.
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The bodies of slain Afghan fighters were paraded around the streets of Tehran and in Qom, in northern Iran, in elaborate ceremonies before their burials.
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"It became a tough area, and the burials just started dwindling," said Mary Lish, 65, a retired court clerk who has studied the cemetery's history.
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Given that the most elaborate burials in this crypt involved males, Dr. Kennett said it was possible that both men and women held powerful positions.
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While river banks were a common choice for burials, experts discovered this skeleton face down, suggesting that the man may have died after a fall.
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USAID's $38 million will also fund training for health care workers, enhanced surveillance for the disease, the promotion of safe burials and food, among other efforts.
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He cited the difficult conditions faced by aid staff working on disinfection, safe burials, support of health facilities, those providing vaccinations to treat Ebola and others.
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The child burials are the first of their kind to be found at the site, containing children under the age of 10 and various burial artifacts.
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That said, one of the more dramatic burials was that of a "richly dressed woman" buried with "a baby cradled in her left arm," said Willmott.
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Archaeologists have documented over 200 individual burials, in which the bodies were placed next to each other and covered in coral gravel, requiring virtually no digging.
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The officials then had the bodies burned in order to help them meet cremation-rate targets, the attainment of which had been frustrated by surreptitious burials.
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The company charges clients for the time Ms. Doughty and Ms. Carvaly spend working with clients during home funeral consultations, home funeral services, burials and cremations.
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In fact, for the second year running, cremation is now more popular than burials, and the National Funeral Directors Association only expects this trend to continue.
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In 230, cremation overtook burial with nearly 24 percent of America's dead being cremated, compared to 2000 percent burials, according to the National Funeral Directors Association.
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Further analysis of the remains pulled from the Oxfordshire site is needed for the archaeologists to reach more definitive conclusions about the circumstances behind the burials.
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In Sierra Leone, for example, unsafe burials stopped when aid workers joined forces with communities to develop alternative burial approaches that were both safe and appropriate.
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Millions of graves of different shapes lie in the roughly 10 square km (4 square miles) cemetery that attracts burials from Shiites all over the world.
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To limit contamination, the Red Cross conducted burials, attempting to bury the bodies as soon as possible, preferably in body bags, and sanitizing families after ceremonies.
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It's not unusual to find the bones of bears, leopards, and gibbons in these imperial burials, but there is something curious about these particular gibbon bones.
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The researchers will continue studying burials in Birka to "gain a better overview of living conditions for both different social groups and certain individuals," Kjellström said.
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For some, the prolonged waiting period for coroners to identify and return victims' bodies frustrated traditional Islamic rituals, which prioritize immediate burials and a joyful departure.
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"Picture a wine cellar with a vaulted ceiling," said Caroline S. DuBois, the cemetery's volunteer president, whose own family crypt has had 503 burials since 1831.
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"We've found burials with seven people in one grave haphazardly thrown in, some in body bags, some in garbage bags, some in biohazard bags," Baker says.
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With space at a premium, the abbey stopped conducting burials in the early part of the last century, though this was not a completely smooth process.
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Areas with high affiliation to Christianity as well as lower income and lesser educated populations tend to prefer traditional burials to cremations, according to CANA's research.
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The venture also has offered binding and gagging, claustrophobia, stress and physical tests, water, electric, coffin burials, sound and sight deprivation, for around $343 per pop.
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Relatives of people who commit mass shootings often choose secret burials in unmarked graves with small or nonexistent ceremonies, designed to keep away critics and vandals.
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A necropolis from the Middle Ages, the site of about 40 burials, is the last trace of regular human habitation of the site, according to Archeodunum.
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More than 300 sites where executions are thought to have occurred and 47 sites believed to have been used for cremations and burials have been identified.
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It intends "to establish a process of official documentation for burials and burial grounds of enslaved Americans in the United States," as the NBDEA site states.
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They expressed surprise at the lack of knowledge about the burials from the local council and the nuns from the Bon Secours order who ran the home.
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"The two female and the male burials from Dakhleh, all young adults, could have, respectively, developed cancer of the uterine cervix and testicular cancer," the authors wrote.
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Keller said the policy was necessary because Illinois halted or delayed payments for indigent burials due to the state&aposs prolonged budget crisis, which ended last summer.
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So too was the public mourning in the city in January when it held mass burials of 216.1 people killed in the first few days of 2018.
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In a written statement to Motherboard, a spokesperson for the FEHD said the government is pushing to make this the preferred choice for burials across the territory.
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Recent burials of prominent scientists inside Westminster Abbey include Ernest Rutherford, a pioneer of nuclear physics, in 1937, and Joseph John Thomson, who discovered electrons, in 1940.
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Texas is one state where Republicans have used the dual track method: The state required fetal burials or cremations even before the legislature passed its own law.
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A "green" burial comes with some obvious environmental benefits, but those who have chosen natural burials find the services provide emotional closure unlike that of traditional services.
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Their only tools of identification are those that are most universal—sight and a blind faith that all burials should be, if not monumental, at least sufficient.
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She allows families to make payments for her services, doesn't "push" merchandise and even helps coordinate home burials in those parts of the state where it's allowed.
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In the first scientific study of Ebola victim burials, researchers found each unsafe burial had the potential to generate more than 2.5 secondary cases of Ebola infection.
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In a presentation thick with euphemism—but, they promise, based in science—they detail their techniques, including slaps, cramped confinement, sleep deprivation, mock burials, waterboarding, and more.
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Burials within ABMC cemeteries are rare today, as these cemeteries are considered closed -- except to remains recently recovered and identified, as in the case of Julius Pieper.
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Religions such as Islam and Judaism require quick burials, but authorities said last week that identifying remains - many burned or in small pieces - might take six months.
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Perhaps if publications made it a point to invite tips from people local to a given news piece, we could find more stories like the Calabria burials.
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But Behesht-e Masoumeh morgue director Ali Ramezani told Iranian state TV earlier this month that burials were being delayed as testing for the virus takes time.
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NATIONAL An article on Friday about the liquefaction of human remains as an alternative to burials and cremations referred incorrectly to how alkali salts can be derived.
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"Someone like me can be buried alive," Mr. Muhindo said as his colleagues hosed down their trucks at the Red Cross compound after another day of burials.
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It shouldn't matter whether a victim was a dual national, because Iran recognizes the families' desires about where the burials take place should take precedence, Trudeau said.
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In Manhattan, burials were banned south of 86th Street in 1852, because of the supposed role of human corpses in spreading outbreaks of cholera and yellow fever.
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They also will make the trip on the day of the first funerals, with burials scheduled to continue through Friday, Mayor William Peduto told CNN's Anderson Cooper.
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KINSHASA (Reuters) - Congolese authorities have identified 10 more mass graves in a region where the military and militia fighters accuse each other of summary executions and burials.
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To call these deaths and burials accidents implicitly perpetuated the idea that the randomness of nature was the killer, not the shortsightedness, cowardice or hubris of people.
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"We believe there is a market for natural urban burials, and the city could sell plots on Hart Island and eventually other park locations," Hunt told Hyperallergic.
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Many cities are offering cash awards of around 800 to 15,000 renminbi, or about $120 to $2,300, for families who choose sea burials or other land-sparing alternatives.
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Pet burials will also have to be incidental to the burial of human remains, meaning, pet owners will have to keep their pet's ashes until their own deaths.
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In these and similar cases, archaeologists attribute the burials to warfare or pillaging, as evidenced by wounds such as blunt-force trauma, injuries caused by weapons, or decapitations.
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The report mentioned the fact the Orthodox Chief Rabbinate has exclusive control over marriage, divorce, and burials for Jews and does not recognize the Reform and Conservative denominations.
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The Red Cross conducted about half of official safe burials in Sierra Leone and 100 percent in both Guinea and Liberia's Montserrado County during the 2013-2016 epidemic.
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The problem was that the "safe burials" ordered by the WHO—with its understandable yet singular fixation on biosafety—were insensitive to the sacred dimensions of funeral custom.
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Even with a straightforward cremation, the funeral costs—of transporting the body, burials, and so on—can add up, which Smith says is good to keep in mind.
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But, concerned that The Times had reached relatives that were never contacted by the city, she initiated a new round of outreach focused on the March 10 burials.
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All Faiths Cemetery in Middle Village, Queens, plans to allow pet burials as soon as it receives state approval to do so, said Dan Austin, the cemetery's president.
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Potter has directed research at the Upward Sun River since 2006, where researchers are investigating who lived at the site and when, including burials and a residential camp.
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Opened in 1890 and with a striking gap in burials for several decades during and after World War II, the cemetery is best known as Kafka's burial site.
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At the hearing, city officials said they would begin exploring alternative burial sites, as Hart Island has space to accommodate only up to 10 more years of burials.
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There is now a waiting list for burials there, and coffins of the deceased awaiting services have overflowed two hospital morgues and a cemetery morgue, The Post reported.
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" The task force's website said that began "a long tradition of disrespect for this sacred site: funerals and burials took place as farm animals wandered on the cemetery.
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It's one of the largest and best-equipped local providers of "deathcare," the term for services including removing and embalming corpses, arranging funerals, and coordinating burials and cremations.
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Lime is sometimes used in mass graves to help slow decay and reduce odor, and Iranian authorities have said they're using it in the burials of coronavirus victims.
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For more extreme burials, US startup Recompose plans to offers hexagonal compost bins where bodies will be deposited to create "soil" that families can take home from 2021.
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In the second century B.C., tomb robbing was so widespread that the Lüshi Chunqiu, a classic Chinese text compiled around 239 B.C., advocated frugal burials to deter looters.
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Iran has a long practice of denying the family members of deceased people deemed a "security threat" access to their bodies and conducting secret burials to avoid publicity.
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On a rainy day in early September, Green-Wood archivist Tony Cucchiara gave me a tour of the massive Green-Wood archival system, accounting for all 570,000 burials.
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The Poarch Band of Creek Indians tribe is making a $184,000 donation to the East Alabama Medical Center Foundation to assist in the burials of the 23 victims.
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Captain LeRoy is one of 560,000 people buried here since 1838; Green-Wood is a National Historic Landmark, but it is also a working cemetery, where burials continue.
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And in the weeks and months that followed, as the remains of the victims were slowly identified, Al Manaar hosted prayers for the missing, burials and funeral receptions.
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Mr. Zimmerlee, who became an amateur researcher while searching for records about his father's lost bomber, has frequently turned up files on unknown burials whose identities appear obvious.
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"Our resident pastor officiated at the burials because we could not get there because of the poor state of the roads destroyed by the cyclone," Mr. Makanga said.
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