Pros: Cons: How it works: A "green" cremation — sometimes called resomation or bio cremation — is an environmentally friendly alternative to cremation by fire.
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Instead of paying the standard $695 cremation fee to Colorado Cremation, Hess's former cremation marketing business, Dunlap paid Hess $495 to take his body.
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Who offers it: Florida-based Anderson-McQueen Funeral Home; Minnesota's Green Cremation; Direct Cremation of Maine.
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Here are some questions and answers about cremation: What does the price of a cremation include?
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Here are some questions and answers about cremation: What does the price of a cremation include?
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Classes such as "Mastering cremation phone-inquiries" teach attending undertakers how to deal with that tricky "how much is cremation?" phone-call.
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Many Americans of Japanese descent, for example, routinely opt for cremation just as they might in Japan, where cremation is nearly universal.
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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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Ms. Carvaly and Ms. Doughty have conducted cremations in which customers decorated cremation coffins and sometimes even pushed a button to start the cremation.
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"There was a market gap for high-value cremation for individuals and families who desired a high-value cremation product," Saari told Twin Cities Business last year.
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Last year, the NFDA estimated the current cremation totaled 224 percent compared to 103 percent for burial; the national cremation rate is projected to reach 210 percent by 21.
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Users can enter their ZIP code and type of funeral — traditional, cremation memorial, immediate burial and direct cremation — into the free site to see estimated prices from local businesses.
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Only two in 10 people in Britain are buried, with the vast majority opting for cremation, according to the Cremation Society of Great Britain, which promotes the burning of remains.
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Industry watchers say the shift toward cremation is also part of larger trend that has seen visits to gravesites becoming less common, opening up cremation as a more practical option.
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In 2014 the government said it wanted the cremation rate to grow by up to 603% annually for the rest of the decade, with "close to 100%" cremation in selected areas.
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Exposure to radiation contamination after the cremation of a patient who received radiopharmaceutical treatment is especially important here in the United States, where the cremation rate is higher than 50 percent.
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But a third option, a liquefaction process called by a variety of names — flameless cremation, green cremation or the "Fire to Water" method — is starting to gain popularity throughout the United States.
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Although the practice of fire cremation in the US dates back to 1876, most states did not bother to regulate it for another century, according to the Cremation Association of North America.
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People prefer cremation for many reasons, including that funerals with cremation are about 24 percent less expensive than conventional ones, which typically cost just over $21995,27, in addition to grave and cemetery fees.
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In addition to cremation, what other services does Funeravet offer?
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What's the most difficult or strangest cremation that you've done?
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Instead, they must finance cremation or burial of the remains.
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A funeral procession and cremation ceremony are scheduled for Thursday.
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And, in some parts of the world, burial or cremation?
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For people with no religious faith, cremation proved particularly appealing.
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A royal cremation is expected to take months to prepare.
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Bob's widow, Ginger, has already signed off on cremation papers.
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The cremation logs were lit, the wind fanned the fire.
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The growing popularity of cremation has helped ease the demand.
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So when they started joking about cremation, I laughed, too.
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Paying for her funeral, obituary, cremation, and headstone was overwhelming.
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The official mourning period ends after his cremation next week.
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For a long time, people thought that cremation was desecration.
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In the cremation survey, 22 percent of the businesses surveyed did not include in their pricing the cost of the cremation itself, a charge that advocates said could tack on another $250 to $400.
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Now, more than 53 percent of Americans opt for cremation, which reduces direct handling of the dead and, at 1,400 degrees or more in the cremation chamber, is sure to kill off any virus.
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He learned about the growing popularity of cremation for non-financial reasons in Time magazine—and realized that the two concepts fit, especially as it was becoming clear that cremation would continue growing in popularity.
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Cremation is gaining popularity in part because it seems less wasteful.
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A Jewish preference for burial (rather than cremation) sharpens the problem.
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A funeral with cremation, which is increasingly popular, was about $6,300.
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Arkansas and Georgia have similar burial and cremation regulations in place.
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The majority of Americans are choosing cremation partly for that reason.
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Cremation became more popular than burial in the U.S. in 2017.
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Cremation is problematic because of greenhouse gas emissions and energy use.
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Here are details of the cremation: * The king's cremation will take place on Thursday, which has been declared a public holiday, when many businesses have announced they will be shut all day or close at midday.
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Doroshov, a department spokesperson, did not identify the alleged cremation cookie baker.
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The cremation service was for family and members of the sheriff's office.
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About 24.44 per cent of funerals involved cremation in China in 153.
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Simple cremation, an increasingly popular option, costs $2.53 to $1,000 or more.
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Although cremation is somewhat more environmentally friendly, it's still not exactly green.
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Many options we found are cheaper than a traditional burial or cremation.
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The next day, the family attended Ms. McDonald's cremation at Woodlawn Cemetery.
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At the mortuary, you'll have choices to make around cremation or burial.
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"Make no mistake about it, cremation is here to stay," Nicodemus said.
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King Bhumibol's cremation will take place about a year after his death.
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The two retorts, as cremation furnaces are called, looked like oversize refrigerators.
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Buakaw ordained for a total of nine days during the Royal Cremation.
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Driven by factors like cost, religious affiliation, and desire for personalization, more and more people are moving away from traditional burial and toward cremation (in North America, cremation rates have doubled since 2000, and by 323, 75 percent of Canadians are expected to make use of the option), and as a result, the range of post-cremation options has become broader than it's ever been before.
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The government has not set a date for the royal cremation but a deputy prime minister said the prince had asked that it be held after a year of mourning, and the coronation would take place after the cremation.
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Conventional burial and cremation leave significant carbon footprints, Recompose says on its website.
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It started allowing cremation in 1963 but has always frowned on the practice.
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She spends about eight hours at the cremation grounds, seven days a week.
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In fact, cremation is the preferred method of after-life care in America.
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Cremation, direct or otherwise, is not the only rival to old-fashioned burial.
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It typically produces less than a seventh of the carbon of normal cremation.
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In the United Kingdom, about 90 percent of people choose cremation, for example.
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Another trend—known as "direct cremation"—has no role for them at all.
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"I don't think free cremation is going to be a driver," he said.
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His coronation will not take place until after his father's cremation next year.
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Who offers it: California's Heart In Diamond; Illinois-based LifeGem; Vermont's Cremation Solutions.
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They were taken to Kathmandu for cremation and the ashes returned to Iceland.
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She said Hess agreed to delay cremation until Thomas could get to Montrose.
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According to the death certificate, he opted to be buried instead of cremation.
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For most Americans, there are two main choices after death: burial or cremation.
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Maybe I should become a mortician and try to spread greener cremation methods.
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For urban cemeteries running short of space for burials, cremation offers a reprieve.
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The cremation itself will take place in a confined incinerator within the structure.
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In that sense, Schmidt concluded that Kansas could not treat it as cremation.
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It is to be completed in September, and a formal cremation will follow.
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The funeral industry has endeavored lately to give cremation a rosy environmental glow.
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The palace has said it expects 250,000 mourners to attend the royal cremation.
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Undertaking LA charges $996 for its home funeral service, which includes a three-hour home visit, a service fee, supplies, assistance washing and dressing the body, and guidance on cremation and burial options — but not the burial, cremation or cemetery plot.
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Though the trend is new, this is not the first time the cremation rate exceeded the burial rate: 2015 was the first year these rates flipped, the report indicates, with 48.5% of Americans choosing cremation compared with 45.4% selecting burials.
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In Africa, officials promoting cremation cite more practical concerns: poverty and lack of space.
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The company has organized the cremation of just one Ugandan since 2002, he said.
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By mid-afternoon, 25,000 mourners had gathered around the cremation site, city police said.
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Human remains from this era are exceptionally rare, mostly because Neolithic Britons practiced cremation.
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"It helps with marketing," said Jeff Wolowiec, owner of Avalon Cremation Care in Chicago.
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Of these, nearly 21% are Catholics, their large number influencing the shift toward cremation.
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The government will also install smoke-tappers to control emission at 75 cremation grounds.
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It mandates that an aborted fetus must be disposed of by burial or cremation.
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New King Maha Vajiralongkorn, the late king's only son, will lead the cremation ceremony.
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In some places where flameless cremation is available, it has quickly overtaken the alternative.
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We're told Bob -- whom the families believe died from a heart attack -- requested cremation.
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Yet the cremation ceremony proper was held away from the eye of the people.
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Cost can also be a factor — cremation is usually less expensive than conventional burial.
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The same statistics show the cost of a direct cremation in 2995 was $2600,400.
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Although she wanted to bury Bowen, she went with cremation because it was cheaper.
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" When his father died, in 20043, he paid for the cremation and said: "Good.
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"The demand for cremation will increase until the baby boomers disappear," Mr. Ota said.
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He needed cash for cremation, but the bank ran out of cash to disburse.
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People who choose at-home death care typically opt for cremation and green burials.
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Cremation is also somewhat environmentally kinder, though it releases greenhouse gases into the air.
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He did, as he wheeled her back to the cremation room, the family following.
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Now the preference for cremation is continuing to rise, particularly in the United States.
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" Roughly the same is true for human aquamation, which, according to Staudt's book, "requires about 20143 kwh of electricity, resulting in one quarter the carbon emissions of cremation, consuming one-eighth the energy, while costing the consumer roughly the same amount as cremation.
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The report also found that 22 percent of the funeral homes advertised prices for cremation packages that did not include the cost of the actual cremation, apparently because many funeral homes use outside crematories that charge a separate fee of $200 to $400.
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One funeral home is offering free cremation services for the victims as the city mourned.
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ROK Life, too, gives subscribers insurance for accidental death, burial and cremation, and identity theft.
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In the past three years there has been a slight uptick in the cremation rate.
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Police declined to identify the cremation cookie baker, but they believe the allegations are credible.
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Following the service, the family will hold a private interment through Austin Funeral & Cremation services.
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Friends offered to pay for cremation, which typically costs at least $695 in the region.
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At the time, Richard said he was grateful for the free cremation the firm promised.
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Cremation is booming in the US. In 1958, only 28 people were turned to ash.
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The public crowning ceremony will only take place late-2017 after the previous king's cremation.
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Hughes said that she later canceled the donation - but not the cremation - in July 2017.
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His coronation, however, cannot take place until after the royal cremation, in a year's time.
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Eventually, the Moores went to pick up Winnie's ashes and paid for the cremation themselves.
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This process is known colloquially as water cremation and scientifically as alkaline hydrolysis, or aquamation.
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Family and friends of Prince held a small, private funeral on Saturday after his cremation.
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After Maria, the forensics bureau reviewed many deaths and autopsied bodies before burial or cremation.
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But temperatures during cremation, depending on the method, can reach over a thousand degrees Fahrenheit.
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If the G.O.P. needed an autopsy after 2012, will it demand a cremation after 2016?
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In a sign of the event's solemnity, selfies have been discouraged at the cremation complex.
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But they upheld part of the same law requiring burial or cremation of fetal remains.
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There is no coffin, no chemicals and none of the fossil fuels necessary for cremation.
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Today, six decades later, there is little discussion over the expense of King Bhumibol's cremation.
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Jonathan Fisher, a funeral director at Fisher Funeral Chapel and Cremation Services in Lafayette, Ind.
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The adoration is everywhere in the elaborate preparations for his cremation ceremony later this year.
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Cremation became the top choice in 2015 and has been climbing in popularity ever since.
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In 2017, cremation surpassed burial as the preferred form of disposition in the United States.
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Liquid cremation is now legal in 18 states, and Washington just began allowing body composting.
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But the typical cremation still produces a disturbing mix of greenhouse gases and other pollutants.
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It made my grief concrete, and it lasted all week, disappearing only after the cremation.
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That week of waiting for the cremation I spent reading the first of Shiva's books.
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Procedures differ with different organizations, but most take care of everything from transportation to cremation.
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Cremations are comparatively cheaper, with the median price of a funeral and cremation totaling $6,000.
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On their first date when he still did not know what sort of woman she was, he recited a poem called "The Cremation of Sam McGee" about an Alaskan prospector who welcomed his cremation as the only way to get warm in the icy north.
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A GoFundMe page has been launched to help cover the cost of her cremation and memorial.
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Funerals, like education and health care, are free in the socialist state (though cremation costs money).
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His funeral costs were just over $2k, according to the docs ... and included $180 for cremation.
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While there is no proven correlation between price and popularity, cremation is cheaper than a burial.
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The report solicited pricing information from 26 funeral homes and cremation businesses in 2000 major cities.
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His formal coronation, however, cannot take place until after the king's cremation in a year's time.
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Alternative's chapel is small — just 22.6,400 square feet — and it outsources the hearse and cremation processes.
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It also plans to offer a DNA service for those who don't choose cremation next year.
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Body brokers like Science Care offer the cheapest option: free cremation in exchange for the body.
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The prison has the option to bury Manson, but we're told cremation will be Manson's fate.
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The urn will move to the Royal Crematorium before the cremation on the night of Oct.
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Right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones even attempted to film a cremation ceremony there in 2000.
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However, Fallon also points out that cremation is becoming an increasingly popular option across Asian countries.
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Now, the road is lined with billboards hawking discount cremation, school bus driving lessons, and Trump.
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The average cost of a traditional funeral and cremation is $6,260, according to the funeral association.
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On the religious front, the Vatican has been loosening the rules on cremation since the 1960s.
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The home must also specify that basic and less expensive cremation and burial services are available.
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The bill would also legalize a separate process sometimes known as water cremation or alkaline hydrolysis.
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There was a cremation to arrange, her clothes and engagement ring to pick up from investigators.
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The day of her cremation, I carried a box of her favorite clothes to go with her.
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Indiana officials had declared that a fetus should be given a "dignified and respectful" burial or cremation.
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The smell of dead bodies and clouds of black smoke fill the air around these cremation grounds.
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Their proximity to the river is because of the religious importance of the Ganga in cremation rituals.
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Smart instead had taken the money given for Zoey's cremation and surgically removed the tumor, KSL reported.
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Some other places in Zhejiang and elsewhere promise to cover the cremation and funeral costs of villagers.
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Case in point: The famously tattooed Amy Winehouse was interred at a Jewish cemetery following her cremation.
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Some crematoriums in North America now offer alkaline hydrolysis, often marketed as "green", "water", or "flameless" cremation.
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The authors of the study recommend that facilities should test deceased patients for radioactivity prior to cremation.
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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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The Gilded Age cremation movement failed, largely because of the extraordinary power of the growing burial business.
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At the bare minimum, it should also cover end-of-life costs such as burial or cremation.
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The facility received bodies from family members by offering free pickup and cremation, the Arizona Republic said.
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Princess Elisabeth's cremation services will take place at Lyngby Kirke on Monday, 25 June, at 1 p.m.
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"The floods will not affect the cremation ceremony in any way," interior minister Anupong Paochinda told reporters.
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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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With his impending cremation, Thai websites and television stations also stripped color from their content and programming.
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They disinfected the room, the father's body was removed for cremation, and the son collected his belongings.
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"Burial has had thousands of years to create rituals, and [cremation has] had 20 years," said Crowe.
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I immediately decided this at 11 or 12 after my dad invited me to see a cremation.
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She had little money, and one funeral director told her it would cost $700 for a cremation.
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For family funeral-home owners, most of whom are not getting rich, cremation cuts deeply into revenues.
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In 2015, according to Time magazine, cremation overtook traditional burial in this country for the first time.
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I had a technology and 3D Printing background and read an article in Time magazine about the fact that, in a very short window of time, the cremation rate had jumped from 10 or 15 percent of people choosing cremation versus burial, to crossing the 50 percent mark.
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On their first date, when he still did not know what sort of woman she was, he recited a Robert Service poem to her called "The Cremation of Sam McGee" about an Alaskan prospector who welcomes his cremation as the only way to get warm in the icy north.
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An official with Perry Funeral Home, which offers burial and cremation services, declined to comment on the incident.
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But people don't realise that on a cremation ground, your gender, caste or marital status does not matter.
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The second is euthanasia, in which a vet will assist in putting it to sleep, followed by cremation.
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After the fall of the last imperial dynasty in 2000 reformers advocated cremation, believing that it symbolised modernity.
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Between 1986 and 2005 China's national cremation rate rose steadily, from 26% of corpses to 53% (see chart).
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Before we load them in the retort [the cremation machine], they're in body bags or wrapped in sheets.
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Cremation is a viable alternative, he said, although he himself would rather be buried at his ancestral home.
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Back in 1963, the Church changed a 2,000-year rule to allow cremation, though burial was still preferred.
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The prince's formal coronation will take place after the king's cremation, following a year-long official mourning period.
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Both the broker, Southern Nevada Donor Services, and the funeral home, Valley Cremation and Burial, were struggling financially.
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In some cases, morticians offer free partial cremation to family members if they donate their loved one's body.
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Thomas Harvey, the doctor who conducted Einstein's autopsy, removed the brain prior to the cremation of the body.
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The cremation of the late monarch took place in private with family members attending, according to Lt. Gen.
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This latest article is wonderful investigative reporting, but it presumes that everyone wants a private burial or cremation.
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A top official said the coronation would take place after the king's cremation, after a yearlong mourning period.
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The cremation of King Bhumibol will not take place for at least a year, a top official said.
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But the rise of "water cremation," or alkaline hydrolysis, could help cut down on some of that waste.
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I knew cremation was the thing, and it just seemed like an option that felt kinder, to me.
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Should you go with cremation, there is one final factor to consider: What to do with the remains.
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It's also generally unclear who would shoulder the cost of the burial or cremation, which is not insignificant.
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Guidelines approved by Pope Francis were specific about cremation: Ashes were not to be scattered in any way.
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Promession, he announced, "would not meet the requirements of a cremation process as set forth" in state law.
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As a colonel, she commanded an honor guard at the 2017 cremation of the late king, Bhumibol Adulyadej.
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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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Before the cremation, Mr. Soffe said, the man's body was displayed for viewing dressed in his motorcycle gear.
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Before the cremation, Mr. Soffe said, the man's body was displayed for viewing dressed in his motorcycle gear.
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This is similar to what's leftover from the cremation process, says Carpenter-Boggs at the AAAS news briefing.
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Archive documents at Benjamin Hooks Library mention that Tann was fond of cremation because it left no evidence.
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But a non-profit funeral director helped Cunningham through with a simple, cut-price cremation for her brother.
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For a simple cremation, Service Corporation's median charge was $2,700, compared with $1,562 for the other funeral homes.
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She said the hospital would take him, with the remains of other such babies, for a collective cremation.
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John O'Conner, who runs Menlo Park Funerals, said more than 90 percent of his clients opt for cremation.
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The idea was to blanket the entire country in their golden glow in time for the Royal Cremation.
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Cremation is hardly cleaner; every year, 5,000 lbs of mercury are released into the atmosphere from dental fillings.
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The method is called "recomposing" and claims to be cheaper and more environmentally friendly than traditional burial or cremation.
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The cremation process There is another, less personal, and a bit overbearing (while still important) message in Mortician's Tale.
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In 2012 the law was tweaked to make it clearer that no force should be used to promote cremation.
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The process, which will cost five thousand five hundred dollars, uses an eighth of the energy that cremation does.
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The diversification of the funeral industry stems from the environmental impact of traditional burial and the rise of cremation.
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But on Friday, the fashion community, royalty and close friends of Lagerfeld, gathered to attend his cremation in France.
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In addition to the planning and arrangement of a funeral service, funeral directors' tasks often include embalming and cremation.
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Many plans restrict when and where cremation or burial can take place, and may charge steeply for any changes.
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By offering free cremation, some deathcare industry veterans say, brokers appeal to low-income families at their most vulnerable.
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These payments generate income for morticians from families who might not be able to otherwise afford even simple cremation.
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If she's not overseeing their cremation, she's bathing them, dressing them, doing their makeup, and sorting out their caskets.
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"In lieu of flowers, please do not vote for Hillary," it reads, followed by a note on cremation arrangements.
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ZipRecruiter explains that cremators, or crematory operators, ensure that bodies are treated with respect before, during, and after cremation.
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The law also mandated the cremation or burial of aborted — or miscarried — embryos and fetuses, no matter how early.
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The prince has asked that the cremation be held after a one-year period of mourning, Mr. Wissanu said.
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The instructions, which reiterate the Roman Catholic Church's preference for burial over cremation, are in line with previous teachings.
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Cremation has become increasingly popular in Italy, where 21 percent of the deceased in 2015 had opted for it.
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They prayed over and eulogized the wrong woman, and then attended her cremation the next day at Woodlawn Cemetery.
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And while cremation takes up less space on the whole, it's known to create a lot of air pollution.
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WATCH: Leaving the Earth the Greenest Way Possible – Water Cremation Heathcote Williams was, in many ways, a brilliant person.
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When her mother, Marcella Okerman, died at 95 earlier this month, Ms. Kastelle had already arranged for flameless cremation.
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"Thailand's military government will become untenable after the cremation and as the new reign begins in earnest," he added.
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The underground space of vaulted stone, with a few cremation niches in the wall, is an overlooked architectural throwback.
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While cremation is a straightforward option, a green burial encapsulates a wider range of decisions, from how to where.
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Each cremation uses about 28 gallons of fuel and releases about 540 pounds of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.
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Catholicism forbade cremation, and crypts were already a public-health nightmare, so the only place to go was down.
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The price is less than an elaborate burial service in many places, but more than the most basic cremation.
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For example, "bible belt" states such as Mississippi, Alabama, Kentucky and Louisiana have some of the lowest cremation rates.
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The rules require that all fetal remains — whether the result of miscarriage, abortion, or stillbirth — receive burial or cremation.
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The cremation of King Chulalongkorn, also known as Rama V, in 1911, was the first to reflect such concerns.
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The next most popular alternative—fire cremation—did not capture more than 5 percent of the market until 20103.
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Schmidt's conclusion—that promession wouldn't count as cremation, even under the state's relatively easygoing definition—came as a disappointment.
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Gateway Funeral Home & Cremation Center posted on Facebook this week about an unsuccessful search for relatives of the veteran.
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People can save money, he said, by skipping embalming, opting for cremation over burial and resisting a fancy coffin.
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Afterwards, Li will help them choose how to dispose of their pet's remains, with cremation generally the preferred option.
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As a loose reiteration of Sheeran's account of what happened, the film hints at the cremation of Hoffa's body.
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The owners of a Port Orange funeral home gave away a free cremation as part of its grand reopening.
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After cremation, families usually keep the ashes at home for 2768 days before a burial service at a cemetery.
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Though the rest of the building was serene, the cremation room was industrial, practical, not designed to soften reality.
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The Thai government was revoking all gambling permits for the month of October in preparation for the Royal Cremation.
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Icons in Ash: Cremation Portraits continues through May 12 at Ubu Gallery (416 East 59th Street, Midtown East, Manhattan).
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Permanent cemetery plots ran out a long time ago, so cremation has become the preferred option for Hong Kong residents.
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Dr K.K. Sharma, who has written a book on Varanasi and life in the cremation grounds, said business is good.
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Commonly known as body brokers, these businesses often profit by targeting people too poor to afford a burial or cremation.
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Then Beric nets another +50 for using magic-sword fire to burn Thoros' body in an intimate little cremation ceremony.
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About 250,000 Thais are expected to attend the cremation ceremony, which will be led by the new King Maha Vajiralongkorn.
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The coronation of the crown prince, however, cannot take place until after the king's royal cremation, in a year's time.
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Individuals pay at least a fifth of the 250,000 yen cremation and burial costs, with the government covering the rest.
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Yvette Noel-Schure provided no information about where or when the cremation occurred or where the remains would be placed.
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"Jason [Freeman] would like to give his grandfather a burial or cremation or whatever he has in mind," Davis says.
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The Supreme Court today reinstated an Indiana law that requires the burial or cremation of fetal remains after an abortion.
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Hardin also had to oversee the identification of the decedents, as well as remove of any medical devices before cremation.
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The military government has not set a date for the royal cremation but it is expected in about a year.
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The key breakthrough was that high temperatures of cremation can crystalize a skull, storing the chemical signal of its origins.
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Sources close to Cassidy's family tell TMZ ... David's ashes have been tucked away in a cremation unit since his November.
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There's the bill that Indiana's governor, Mike Pence, signed last month requiring cremation or burial for aborted or miscarried fetuses.
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Efforts to enforce cremation in Liberia were not successful, nor was outlawing the sheltering of Ebola patients in Sierra Leone.
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A federal judge on Wednesday blocked a Texas law that would require the burial or cremation of any fetal remains.
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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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As for Drake's beneficiaries -- according to docs, he left a friend in charge of his $650,000 estate and requested cremation.
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And cremation, which recently surpassed burial as the most popular choice for disposing of human remains, produces significant greenhouse gases.
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As authorities increasingly recommend cremation over burial, the crematorium in Bergamo has begun operating around the clock, The Post reported.
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I initially wanted to rush to the scene but ended up waiting a few days for the autopsy and cremation.
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Meanwhile, cremation is more popular in areas of the country with more immigrants, other religious groups and higher income people.
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Judge Ezra's ruling was a second blow to Texas' efforts to require the cremation or burial of aborted fetal remains.
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"Cost is a driving factor," said Mike Nicodemus, licensed funeral director and vice president of cremation services for the NFDA.
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Cremation, once marketed as an eco-conscious alternative, releases approximately 534 pounds of carbon dioxide — a greenhouse gas — per person.
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Rebranded as "bio-cremation," it entails dissolving the corpse in a stainless steel tank filled with water and potassium hydroxide.
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SB 258: Abortion providers must offer the option of burial or cremation as a way of disposing of fetal remains.
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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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Emma was then taken to a local veterinarian, euthanized and taken to a pet cremation center in Richmond, Virginia, WWBT reported.
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It would legalize recomposing in Washington where burial and cremation are currently the only acceptable ways to dispose of human remains.
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The human-sized suit's creators claim that it offers an alternative to current funerary options, such as cremation and casket burial.
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Strategic acquisitions such as The Neptune Society Inc, the largest U.S. provider for the growing cremation business, have also boosted earnings.
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As for a final resting place, we're told one thing's for sure -- no cremation, because Ang was freaked out by fire.
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In just two months the cremation will take place of the country's much loved king, Bhumibol Adulyadej, who died in 2016.
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They lose their hideout, lose their cremation hookup, and start cracking up as the FBI and Dark Army simultaneously close in.
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If you've found yourself wondering what goes into preparing a body for viewing or cremation, this is the game for you.
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By 1980, the cremation rate in the United States, which had been virtually zero, had risen to nearly ten per cent.
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To honor Anucha's memory, he's participating in the boy's cremation ceremony as a novice monk; Thais can temporarily join a monastery.
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While the burial of ashes may be environmentally friendly, cremation has its critics: "It's a very energy-demanding process," says DeBruyen.
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"My research goal was to assess what information could still be obtained from archeological human remains even after cremation," Snoeck said.
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Cremation and burial, the most common ways that bodies are disposed of after death, haven't fundamentally changed in quite some time.
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He offers a flameless cremation package covering the paperwork, an urn (filled with powder from the bone) and transport for $1,795.
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The islanders cut down trees for cremation, for firewood, for canoes, for homes and perhaps for devices to move the statues.
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The county keeps a list online of each person's name, date of birth, date of death, and the date of cremation.
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Funeral homes are so well equipped—we have facilities for refrigeration, we have facilities for embalming, we have facilities for cremation.
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Instead of using flame, green cremation uses heated water and an alkali solution to accelerate the natural decomposition of the body.
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" She loves answering questions about "post-mortem possibilities — keeping Dad's skull, giving Grandma a Viking funeral, swallowing popcorn before a cremation.
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This will be the first cremation of a monarch in nearly 70 years, although pyres have been built for lesser royalty.
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A royal cremation is likely to take months to prepare, according to palace tradition and two royal funerals over recent decades.
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Tibbetts' funeral has been scheduled for Sunday afternoon, according to a release on the Smith Funeral Home and Cremation Service website.
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When a social worker approached Legacy Options Funeral and Cremation Services, the owners said they knew they had to do something.
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But death certificates in many states include a box that must be checked for burial or cremation, with no other options.
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You still have to pay for the cremation or burial, but all those thousands of dollars of funeral costs are erased.
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A name on the bag identified the remains as being from Mufeed Id-Deen, with the date of cremation listed as Dec.
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Today, about 35 families from the community live around the town's main cremation grounds or "burning ghats" - Manikarnika ghat and Harishchandra ghat.
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In recent years, CFA/FCA pricing data research has found wide ranges on funeral and cremation prices, even in the same city.
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The analyst also noted the industry is likely to consolidate as smaller companies struggle to shift to rising demand for cremation services.
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According to a copy of his death certificate obtained by TMZ, Hillenburg's ashes were scattered off the coast of California after cremation.
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China's Ministry of Civil Affairs announced policies two years ago to push up the cremation rate to 215 per cent by 285.2.
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He also noted that many families who donated to Restore Life did so for financial reasons: All expenses were covered, including cremation.
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Most people, when asked what should be done with their bodies when they leave this earth, consider two options: burial or cremation.
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An increasing number, of whom David Bowie, who died in 22017, was probably the best-known, are taking this direct-cremation route.
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Brokers typically obtain cadavers from people who donate their remains in exchange for the free cremation of unused portions of their bodies.
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"Cremation is up; casket sales are down — the ability to charge for [traditional] services isn't what it used to be," said Lonning.
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The department provided photographic evidence to back its claims and alleges the cremation process is being used to cover up the executions.
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The reasons people choose cremation are topped by saving money, with convenience coming in a distant second, according to the new report.
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Other nations with high cremation rates -- 80% or higher -- include Taiwan, Hong Kong, Switzerland, Sweden, South Korea, the Czech Republic and Thailand.
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Justin Crowe of Chronicle Cremation Designs offers something much more unique that you can do with the ashes of a loved one.
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The 2-year-old goldendoodle spends her days comforting the mourners at Ballard-Durand Funeral & Cremation Services in Westchester County, New York.
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Ten more states followed, the most recent being California, which passed a bill last year officially deeming aquamation a type of cremation.
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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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They checked the cost of a "direct" cremation, one that does not include visiting hours or a ceremony with the body present.
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The Texas Medical Association and Texas Hospitals Association, both of which oppose the rules, said cremation could cost between $1,500 and $4,000.
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As the boat moved farther on I saw the shoreline more closely — a funeral pyre, a cremation sending up flames and smoke.
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Having been in this profession and understanding the cremation process, I knew that it should not have taken that long at all.
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In China, authorities said in 2014 they were targeting a cremation rate of close to 100 percent by the end of 2020.
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The reasons cited have shifted over time: respect for religious sensitivities; the recent importance of DNA, which cremation destroys; even ecological concerns.
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It is an unnerving but important question, and for most Americans there have long been only two obvious choices: burial or cremation.
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Tens of thousands of Thais have volunteered to support the cremation ceremony, providing accommodation, transportation and security, as well as cleaning services.
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When Hiroaki Hishijima's divorced father passed away in September last year, officials in Tokyo's Shinjuku ward handled the cremation of his body.
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In theory, promession would release significantly fewer emissions than fire cremation, which is responsible for 270,000 tons of carbon dioxide per year.
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For death-tech startups, convincing legislators that their inventions should fall under the "cremation" umbrella is the fastest way to begin operations.
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But Costco has premium caskets starting at about $900, as well as a selection of inexpensive urns for those who choose cremation.
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Many friends and supporters of the dissident were revolted and incensed by Mr. Liu's cremation and sea burial under such intimidating controls.
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Sebastian was pronounced dead by 9 PM. Cory says Delta told him it would handle the necropsy and cremation of the dog.
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A simple cremation in Washington, D.C., for example, can range from $1,295 to $7,595, depending on the funeral home, according to Slocum.
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But because that service isn't offered by most funeral homes, I may end up having just a run-of-the-mill cremation.
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There's no coffin, no chemicals, none of the fossil fuels that would be needed for cremation, and no expensive cemetery plot required.
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The cremation process belches carbon dioxide and toxins like mercury; the metals from caskets can corrode and degrade toxins into cemetery soil.
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Enid Yeager told jurors that mortuary staff pushed her toward cremation because the larger casket needed to bury her husband would be costly.
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After the service, the body of the deceased is taken away for cremation and the coffin remains in place awaiting the next service.
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One tries to negotiate a good price for the firewood, while others sell ghee, incense sticks, flowers and other materials needed for cremation.
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Thailand is still only at the start of a long period of national mourning, which will continue until King Bhumibol's cremation next October.
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The ashes started falling on Winterfell long ago, but total cremation is a fresh new horror for both the show and the books.
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He said if cremation in the Indonesian island was "not practical" then he wanted his remains cremated and his ashes scattered there still.
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Yet the funeral industry, to this day, propagates this old notion that individuals and families who choose cremation do so for financial reasons.
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One reason for this is a long-term trend towards cremation—both cheaper than burial, and open to a wider range of rituals.
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For the younger generation—baby boomers and younger—a lot of cremation, just because it comes down to cost (it's a lot cheaper).
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If you don't have that available, that cost can be so huge for families, that cremation seems like an easier way to go.
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In between time on screen, Keilar was planning a cremation and a memorial service while discovering her family's new life without their matriarch.
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The court cited "freedom of religion" and a "lack of cremation laws" in ruling in favor of the continued preservation of Maharaj's body.
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"Unlike cremation, there are no toxic emissions and no contribution to greenhouse gases," wrote Jerry Shevik, owner of Peaceful Pets Aquamation in California.
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In May, the US Supreme Court upheld an Indiana law requiring the burial or cremation of fetal remains following abortions in the state.
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"By taking biological material and reducing it to an inert state [through cremation], you are making it safe for injection," he told Motherboard.
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Mike Pence also signed a bizarre anti-abortion bill as Indiana's governor requiring burial or cremation even of tissue from an early miscarriage.
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They had to arrange her cremation and decide whether it was safe to pick up her ring, stuffed teddy bear and other belongings.
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BANGKOK — With the gilded pageantry of a bygone era, the cremation ceremony of King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand began in earnest on Thursday.
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Royal palanquins and a golden chariot have been prepared for the five-day cremation ceremony, which weaves together 93-year-old spiritual traditions.
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They were transporting 61 bodies to cremation sites in 12 Italian towns, including Modena and Parma, the national newspaper Corriere Della Sera reported.
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Lawyers for the plaintiffs, who include abortion providers, said women could already seek burial or cremation of fetal tissue under current state law.
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Away from practices and the Lynx's pursuit of their fourth W.N.B.A. title, Fowles studies lessons on cremation, funeral direction and principles of embalming.
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The reasons include the weakening hold of religion on American life as well as a loosening of strictures against cremation by some denominations.
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In a bid to attract death-tech companies, and perhaps a piece of the $2 billion fire cremation industry, they've been revamping regulations.
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Based on "the state's relatively lax cremation laws," as the Kansas City Star put it, Promessa chose Kansas as its ideal American home.
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Relatives will, however, be allowed to take the remains after cremation has been completed and documented, the NHC explained in its Saturday announcement.
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"She showed me her collection of gold teeth one day," said Escher, who helped manage a former cremation-marketing business owned by Hess.
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At Sunset Mesa, Hess charged $2695,5003 for a simple burial and $2500 for a basic cremation, according to price lists reviewed by Reuters.
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Glasgow-based Caledonia Cremation is just one social enterprise exploring alternative business models to traditional funeral providers, which are sometimes accused of profiteering.
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Some couldn't afford the $400 the county charges for cremation and body transportation, while others choose not to claim someone for personal reasons.
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In 2015, the popularity of cremation fractionally outpaced burial in the US for the first time in history—but few ask what it entails.
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But the battle to keep safe abortion accessible isn't over, and mandating fetal burial and cremation may be the latest form of TRAP law.
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Next year Sanam Luang will be the site of the royal cremation pyre—an ornate wooden pavilion which will probably take weeks to build.
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" Following that report, the Puerto Rican government said it had allowed the cremation of 911 bodies of people who had died of "natural causes.
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TRENCIN, Slovakia (Reuters) - Two brothers from Slovakia won a grave-digging competition at an international exhibition of funeral, burial and cremation services on Thursday.
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Queues of black-clad mourners, many carrying portraits of the king, snaked around parts of Bangkok's old town, waiting to enter the cremation area.
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The cremation day has been declared a national holiday, when banks will be closed and major shopping centers will be shut from 3 p.m.
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A Montrose husband and wife said that, after reading last month's Reuters report, they became alarmed and canceled a prepaid cremation contract with Hess.
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In the will, signed in 2004, Bowie said that if cremation on the Indonesian island wasn't "practical," he still wanted his remains scattered there.
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Prior to the cremation, no notification of cancer treatment was provided to the crematory operator, including whether safety precautions were advisable under the circumstances.
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Cremation is the prevailing practice in places where the custom is ancient and most of the population adheres to Hinduism, Sikhism, Buddhism or Jainism.
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The state will also take possession of any property Manson left behind, and any funds he left will be used to cover cremation costs.
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Thais devoted to the memory of the king have folded paper flowers for his cremation, making 10 million in Bangkok alone, city authorities said.
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Some stood in long lines to lay ceremonial sandalwood flowers that were later burned in a ceremony at the time of the king's cremation.
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There is no set schedule for the prince's coronation, but Mr. Wissanu indicated that precedent calls for it to take place after the cremation.
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"Our goal is that, in 10 or 20 years, the term 'cremation' will be thought of entirely as a water-based process," he says.
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The family, after being told by the funeral home of the mix-up, then held a private viewing and cremation with the proper body.
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In the United States, many brokers offer donor families free cremation in return for donating a body - a potential saving of up to $1,000.
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Heller's article reminded me of a woman who, seeking the least expensive final arrangements for a sick family member, decided to crowdfund a cremation.
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Others find the process more comforting than cremation, which recently edged past burial in the United States, according to the National Funeral Directors Association.
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Green burial is still the ultimate way to avoid the polluting chemicals of embalming or the emissions of cremation, yet it's rare in cities.
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To accommodate the shift toward cremation, many cemeteries are building columbaria, aboveground structures with niches that can hold hundreds or even thousands of urns.
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The cause was a heart attack, said Linda Cooper, the executive secretary of the cremation and burial association that is handling Ms. Cole's arrangements.
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He explained to Mr. Song that the certificate of cremation — needed for customs — was inside, along with a sealed bag containing Song Yang's ashes.
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Keith cites precedents for his thinking: a company that scatters cremation ashes from a high-altitude balloon, and jet engines, whose exhaust contains sulfates.
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That could be a reason we do not have the same numbers as on the West Coast, where the cremation rate is significantly higher.
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Everything from human composting, water cremation, taking care of your own dead, low-cost funerals — if you want to learn about it, we're here.
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Breaking with precedent, King Bhumibol will be the first monarch to be placed in a coffin rather than a ceremonial urn for the cremation.
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Today, practicing Catholics are allowed to choose cremation; however, the church still wants a ceremony and for the ashes to be buried, not scattered.
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Meghan McCain noted in her eulogy that her father recited the poem "The Cremation of Sam McGee" on his first date with her mother.
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When a human being&aposs time is up in Western countries, we generally have two main options for our mortal remains — burial or cremation.
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Preliminary estimates suggest that it could cost at least $5,000 — less, perhaps, than an elaborate burial service, but more than the most basic cremation.
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Bio-Response, based in Danville, Indiana, specializes in building machines for liquid cremation, a fast, environmentally-friendly, and controversial method for disposing of the deceased.
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Last year, Texas considered enforcing a law that requires the cremation or burial of fetal remains, adding further to the stigma of getting an abortion.
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According to the National Funeral Directors Association (NFDA), the average burial and viewing costs $8,508, while the average cremation and viewing comes out to $6,260.
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To explain her father's sudden disappearance to her family, Coombes said that Kenneth died in the hospital, which had arranged for his cremation, police said.
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Her creations are made out of materials like her clients' breast milk, placenta, cremation ashes, first curl, umbilical cord, wedding dress, bridal flowers, and more.
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Save for the wider acceptance of cremation in the 22006s, this model of caring for and remembering the dead remained unchanged for over 2100 years.
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The king's father was widely revered in Thailand and many Thais wore black through a year of mourning that ended with his cremation last October.
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The industry just keeps serving up the same old vases and boxes then complains about the fact that cremation families don't want to spend money.
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She recalled signing two consent forms, one for Donate Network and one for the company she was told would handle the cremation, United Tissue Network.
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The same was true when "We Don't Need Another Hero," the apocalyptic anthem from the "Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome" soundtrack, was conscripted for a cremation.
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Cremation is generally cheaper than burial, and it makes a certain sense if you have no intention of maintaining the geraniums on the family plot.
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The king's cremation site, which features gold-tipped pavilions built for the occasion, is a stone's throw from the Grand Palace, popular with foreign tourists.
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From there, the deceased pet, often wrapped in a blanket or a piece of the owner's clothing, is placed in a body bag for cremation.
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It is a career that landed him and Ms. Di Troia on the cover of the International Cemetery, Cremation and Funeral Association magazine last year.
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As a body was being wheeled into the cremation chamber the other day, Mr. Di Troia walked out and headed to some recently filled niches.
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Ed Michael Reggie is the CEO of Funeralocity, the first comparison website for funeral home and cremation providers, and the managing director of Future Factory.
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The royal pyre will be ignited by his son, King Maha Vajiralongkorn Bodindradebayavarangkun, whose official coronation is expected to follow soon after his father's cremation.
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That debris could be parts of a zipper and a wristwatch burned during cremation, said two veteran funeral directors who examined pictures of the ashes.
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But it's the earthly details in her travel memoir — the intimacy of a Hindu cremation ceremony in Varanasi, India, for example — that feel like revelations.
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When it comes to alternative cremation, he told the Star, "If that's what you want, hey, where's the government's interest in telling you not to?"
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Already the justices are considering whether to take up a law from Indiana that requires fetal remains to be disposed of by burial or cremation.
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The cremation service will be for family and members of the sheriff's office, and final prayers will be said afterward at the Sikh National Center.
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You can submit a complaint online to the F.T.C. The International Cemetery, Cremation and Funeral Association, an industry group, also offers a complaint resolution service.
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And she does not like the idea of cremation because of environmental costs — emissions and climate impacts of fossil fuels used in the burning process.
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Later, the family gathers to witness the cremation and often picks up the remaining bone fragments, using long chopsticks to place them in an urn.
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The multimillion-dollar industry has been built largely on the poor, who donate their bodies in return for a free cremation of leftover body parts.
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Some body donation programs offer "free cremation" to consumers, and then remove a torso, or a few limbs, before placing the body in the chamber.
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As she states in the accompanying catalogue for Icons in Ash: Cremation Portraits, the viewer is "actually looking at that person" when witnessing their likeness.
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It was the first state to pass a law mandating the burial and cremation of fetal tissue and to prohibit abortion due to fetal anomalies.
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One US state has become the first in the nation to pass a law allowing composting as an alternative to burial or cremation of human remains.
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Requiring the cremation or burial of fetal remains from an abortion frames abortion as murder, and the woman who chose to have one as a criminal.
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The former SEAL is being honored as a national hero, and his cremation ceremony was being held Saturday in his home northeastern province of Roi Et.
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Supporters of the alternative cremation method argue that the old-fashioned burning method can take upward of four hours and releases 250 kilograms of carbon dioxide.
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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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It charges $340 for a three-hour consultation on how to care for the body and complete the necessary paperwork and $1,470 for a witness cremation.
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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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A sweep with a Geiger counter revealed elevated levels of radiation in the cremation unit, a vacuum filter, and the bone-crusher that pulverizes the cremains.
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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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I can tell you from the vitriol posted on my own feed that deportation trends right now, as opposed to cremation ovens a few months ago.
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Joe Wilson, from Bio-response Solutions, which sells flameless-cremation machines, says families choose it for environmental reasons but also because it seems gentler than fire.
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Besides drawing a line under King Bhumibol's era, the cremation is a step towards the military government's promised revival of politics and an election next year.
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In 2016, just over half (70.63%) of Americans chose cremation, while 43.5% opted for burial, according to a new report from the National Funeral Directors Association.
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His wife, under house arrest since his Nobel win in 2010, has not been heard from, even after her late husband's cremation and sea burial Saturday.
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Even though they need as much paraffin—70 litres—for cremation as the usual wooden versions, the company plants trees in Mongolia as a carbon offset.
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A body comes in from a man who wanted cremation, but his family desired embalming, and I had to decide if I was comfortable performing it.
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Your Money Adviser Cremation is becoming more popular than burial, but getting clear information about options and prices can be a challenge, a new report finds.
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For instance, funeral homes currently offer cremation to parents grieving a miscarriage as a charitable service — but increased demand from the state could end that practice.
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Hundreds of thousands of black-clad mourners lined the streets of Bangkok to witness the funereal procession to the cremation of his father, King Bhumibol Adulyadej.
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More Americans are choosing to be cremated after death rather than having a traditional burial, according to data from the Cremation Association of North America (CANA).
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By the numbers: In 2004, less than 1/3 of the deceased were cremated in the U.S. In 2016, half of American deaths resulted in cremation.
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All of these technologies are sold on environmental terms: alkaline hydrolysis, for one, releases as little as a tenth of the carbon dioxide of fire cremation.
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While a few created fresh rules that treat alkaline hydrolysis as a unique disposition method, most elected to tweak their existing cremation laws to include it.
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California rewrote its cremation law in 2017 at the urging of the alkaline hydrolysis startup Qico, then offered the new company $1.6 million in tax credits.
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He heard of similar experiences when he asked other people about losing their loved ones: descriptions of disconnection and disappointment, particularly when it came to cremation.
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It will require facilities that provide abortions to pay for the cremation or burial of fetal remains, rather than dispose of them as biological medical waste.
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Funeral Consumers Alliance figures show that 246,240 tons of carbon dioxide are released each year due to cremation, which is the equivalent of 41,040 cars' emissions.
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Before he died in 2016, the 78-year-old retired contractor saved $200 on cremation by agreeing to pledge parts of his body to Donor Services.
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Liu family lawyer Mo Shaoping told Reuters he did not know whether the cremation was in accordance with family wishes, however, as they had been unreachable.
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Dignity said that since 2016 it has offered more options and price ranges to meet growing demand for lower-cost funerals, including a direct cremation service.
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"We would like to request that the solemnity of the royal cremation is observed, and visitors should refrain from any inappropriate or disrespectful behavior," it said.
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Its backers say "natural organic reduction" is an eco-friendly alternative to burial or cremation, and has obvious benefits in urban areas with dwindling land availability.
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In the South and Midwest, where religious or cultural traditions run deep, more families opt for caskets and concretes vaults, and fewer choose cremation, experts say.
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"There are many reasons why consumers choose cremation, including cost considerations, environmental concerns, fewer religious prohibitions and changing consumer preferences," the NFDA said in a statement.
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On Monday, three days after Susan L'Heureux's death and just hours before funeral-home staff members picked her up for cremation, Suzanne went to her bedroom.
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His brand announced that they would respect his wishes, and the week he died, friends and fashion industry insiders paid their respects at his cremation in France.
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After the cremation process, Hindus release the ashes from incinerated dead bodies into the river, with the belief that the soul of the corpse will be cleansed.
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Some people have inquired about cremation but have not gone through with it, said Stephen Musoke, operations manager at A Plus Funeral Management in the capital, Kampala.
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Those attending the cremation were instructed not to wear hats or raise umbrellas as the cortege passed, and certainly not to lower the tone by taking selfies.
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The deal: Science Care pays for the cremation of a donor's unused remains and for returning the ashes to the bereaved family, usually after a few weeks.
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The paper reports that Thumbi obtained a court order to block Okoth's cremation or burial until Jayden was recognized as his son and included in the funeral.
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" With cremation, more people have begun hosting memorial services in their backyards and homes, Kemp said: "I've had funeral services in parks, in bars, in sporting arenas.
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Jorgenson said there are a few reasons why Washington, Nevada and Hawaii have high cremation rates, such as lack of religion, high education rates and transient populations.
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A military funeral will be held for the actor, and a cremation ceremony will be held for Pang at Mandai Crematorium on Sunday, according to the statement.
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She also noticed that a form to consent to his cremation said he died in Fountain Valley and was homeless, like the man in the news reports.
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The three urns' aluminum lids were marked with the dates of birth, death, and cremation of the person who died, and marked "For collection" by the crematorium.
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Instead of reducing the body to ash by flames, which poses a risk for harmful emissions, a green cremation employs a solution of water and potassium hydroxide.
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But some duties become impossible for a family member who has turned to Islam; he cannot oversee the Hindu cremation, or the Christian burial, of a parent.
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Some facilities use filters or scrubbers to reduce pollutants, but cremation still results in soot, carbon monoxide, and trace metals like mercury being released into the air.
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He also reached out to the Educational Alliance, which provided him with $2,650 from the Neediest Cases Fund to cover the cost of a viewing and cremation.
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Inmates on Rikers Island would be transported to Hart Island to dig mass graves where the dead could be buried, and cremation efforts would be ramped up.
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The main cremation tower will be 165 feet tall, with a seven-tiered roof and spire, surrounded by eight smaller pavilions representing mountains that surround Mount Meru.
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Most state disposition laws are antiquated, premised on narrow definitions of "cremation" and "burial" that leave new technologies like promession without the legal grounds to establish themselves.
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But since the turn of the century, Americans have flocked to fire cremation in droves, with the method now making up 55 percent of all body dispositions.
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He interpreted the broad language of an old Ohio statute, which allowed "burial, cremation, or other manner of final disposition," to mean that alkaline hydrolysis was legal.
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The love story behind Holi In modern day Holi celebrations, Holika's cremation is often reenacted by lighting bonfires on the night before Holi, known as Holika Dahan.
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As a social enterprise, Caledonia Cremation will reinvest profits into its mission of preventing funeral poverty, although so far McColgan said it has only just broken even.
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For centuries, the Catholic Church prohibited cremation because it clashed with teachings about the resurrection of the body in the Last Judgment at the end of the world.
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Choosing this new option will be environmentally beneficial as well, as cremation releases carbon dioxide into the air, and traditional burial takes up land and can pollute groundwater.
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But others note that a person who donates a body to science may receive a free cremation in return, which could be construed as a form of payment.
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And this year, the state's Republican-dominated legislature approved a law that restricts the reasons women can have abortions and mandates the burial or cremation of aborted fetuses.
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As a result of the court order, CPI PR should be given death certificates, burial and cremation approvals, and all death statistics for people who died from Sept.
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The bill additionally holds doctors legally liable for performing an abortion under said circumstances, and requires the fetuses to essentially be given a funeral through burial or cremation.
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While cremation is not without its environmental impact — the process requires about two SUV tanks' worth of fuel — it's an increasingly popular alternative that uses fewer physical materials.
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Some Thais have folded flowers of sandalwood paper to be used in the cremation, in the belief that their fragrance guides the soul of the departed to heaven.
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The prince has been seen presiding over the daily funeral rituals at the Grand Palace in Bangkok, where the body of King Bhumibol will lie until his cremation.
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Many mortuaries no longer hire full-time embalmers thanks to a rise in cremation rates, so Hardin embalms bodies in-house for several mortuaries for a flat fee.
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The kind of man who demands a half day excursion to Pittsburgh to pay tribute to the cremation site of the man who raised his son: Jack Pearson.
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Officials closed the Biological Resource Center (BRC) in Phoenix after an investigation into the misuse of bodies donated for scientific research in exchange for free cremation later on.
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On the way to the cremation ground, the family found the boy still breathing after noticing "some movements" inside one of the polythene bags containing the babies' bodies.
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Joshua Slocum, executive director of the Funeral Consumers Alliance, said on a call to discuss the study with reporters that consumers often report being baffled by cremation pricing.
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Near the opening of this black-humored novel, a bedridden eighty-year-old woman living in a Reykjavík garage schedules her cremation and embarks on her life story.
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The latest Texas law, signed in June by the state's Republican Governor Greg Abbott, also requires abortion providers to dispose of aborted fetal tissue through burial or cremation.
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The church banned cremation for centuries, but began to allow the practice in 1963, as long as it is not done for reasons at odds with Christian doctrine.
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"Of those who choose cremation," he said, "I think we'll see more people choosing to keep ashes at home or scattering them rather than placing them in cemeteries."
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But it does effectively require women to pay for funerary services, cremation or burial, that are normally optional (if they're offered at all) for fetuses or fetal tissue.
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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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"We are the warehouse of the memories of those who passed on," said Mr. Di Troia, who added that cremation was an efficient and graceful alternative to burial.
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The Italian Army is ferrying coffins from the northern Italian city of Bergamo to remote cremation sites because local morgues can't cope with the surging coronavirus death toll.
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"To crudely implement a 100 percent cremation rate, these methods are inhuman, unlawful and should stop immediately," The Procuratorate Daily, a state-run legal newspaper, said on Tuesday.
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Then, on March 28.3, Bergamo's shot up so rapidly that the Italian Army was later sent in to ferry coffins away from overwhelmed morgues to remote cremation sites.
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Although the main rituals of a Thai royal cremation have barely changed since the 14th century, the pageantry surrounding them has, reflecting the political concerns of each period.
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The burial rate, meanwhile, is projected to drop to just 16 percent over the next two decades, which means that cremation "is no fading trend," the association concluded.
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The burial rate, meanwhile, is projected to drop to just 16 percent over the next two decades, which means that cremation "is no fading trend," the association concluded.
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Instead, they sit in the rooms with their dearly departed for a day or two, with only close family in attendance, and then send the bodies for cremation.
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Suzanne had told her children they didn't have to watch the cremation; they could walk out of the room at any time or stay in the reception area.
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The restaurant also reminds Venkatkrishnan of the Hindu feast after the shraddha ritual, when the family and friends gather near the body during the 13-day cremation ritual.
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The bill also allows for alkaline hydrolysis, or "liquid cremation," which decays a human body using heat, pressure, water and chemicals, and is already in use in 19 states.
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Nobody was willing to train him and he was even denied access to education, making him accept that earning a livelihood at the cremation grounds was his only choice.
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Mr Prayuth has implied that elections cannot now be held until after King Vajiralongkorn's coronation, which itself cannot take place until after his father's elaborate cremation, scheduled for October.
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Burying and cremating a loved one comes with a hefty price tag: the average funeral costs $2175,508, while the average cremation and funeral ceremony totals $6,260, per the NFDA.
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"Cremation is a good idea as long as the world is changing and there is less time and money," said Pius Ssetimba, a funeral planner with Kampala Funeral Directors.
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"We are fully booked during the royal cremation," said Preechaya Amngeun, 23, a guest services agent at the Ibis Styles Bangkok Khaosan Viengtai, part of French hotel group Accor.
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"My advice would be if you've ever thought about burial or cremation, or where you might want to be buried, that you've already started your funeral arrangements," he says.
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A year of mourning has done nothing to diminish that veneration as Thailand marks a final end to his era with his cremation, uncertain of what is to follow.
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On Thursday, three processions will make their way from the palace to the cremation site - a series of specially-erected Thai pavilions that took nearly a year to build.
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Often offering free cremation services to grieving families, body brokers sell donated bodies on a research market where a human head can be bought for as little as $300.
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It was also important to the couple that the funeral home be near their community so friends could gather for a memorial luncheon after the cremation, the lawsuit says.
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"I was just amazed when I pulled up in the hearse," Drew Mikel, an intern at the Brown Funeral Home & Cremation Services who helped publicize Wilson's funeral, told CNN.
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A crematoriumPhoto: Georg Lippitsch (Wikimedia Commons)An Arizona crematorium was contaminated with radiation after the cremation of a patient who'd received radiopharmaceutical treatment, according to a new case study.
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Politics has been put on hold in Thailand, partly out of respect for late King Bhumibol Adulyadej, who died last October and whose cremation will take place in October.
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Three hundred bio-coffins can be made with the number of trees required to build a single wooden coffin and require about half the amount of fuel during cremation.
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His lawyer, Mr. Di Gianni, said Mr. Little intended to sue McCall's for breaching his right of sepulcher, or his right to choose cremation or burial for his mother.
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Mr. Bradshaw, who has been offering both services for five years, says that more than two-thirds of families seeking cremation choose the new method when it is offered.
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Near the Grand Palace, tens of thousands of Thai mourners lined up on Wednesday to secure their spot close to the grounds of the cremation complex, despite monsoonal downpours.
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In finalizing its rule on Monday, Texas joined at least three other states — Arkansas, Louisiana and Indiana — that have called for the burial or cremation of aborted fetal remains.
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Namami Gange would leave the ghats spotless; garbage would be trucked to a new waste-to-energy plant; discarded flowers from the cremation grounds would be turned into incense.
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"It's a nightmare scenario ... with a long-lasting impact," said Paul McColgan, who founded Caledonia Cremation in 2018 after seeing his sister struggle to pay for her husband's funeral.
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However, Bangkok's Grand Palace and the Temple of the Emerald Buddha, two key landmarks in the capital, will be closed for most of the month to host the cremation.
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He married Elin Doehner on July 21, 1967, in Essen, Germany, and then moved to Mexico City, according to an obituary posted by the Cremation Society of New Hampshire.
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The building was across the street from a cremation service and is full of dim, cramped hallways with heavily stained carpeting and security cameras perched just below the ceiling.
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Death laws vary on a state-by-state basis, but Spade cites the precedent of alkaline hydrolysis, or "water cremation," which is now legal in about a dozen states.
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Anti-abortion politicians across the country want to mandate burial or cremation services for fetuses—regardless of gestational age, and regardless of whether they're the result of abortion or miscarriage.
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Relatives were unable to gather friends for the service as they had intended, it said, after scrambling to find another funeral home offering cremation some 90 miles (145 km) away.
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Mourners lit candles and recited prayers before dawn on Saturday outside Bangkok's riverside Grand Palace, where the remains of the king will lie for months before a traditional royal cremation.
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Thousands of civil servants had to be bussed in to swell the attendant crowds, which were much sparser than at the cremation of his father, who was far more popular.
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In Boston a Chinese delegation stocked up on free "Bereave-mints" but mainly came to learn about cremation, which rose in China from 33% in 19073 to 50% by 2012.
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" The company, Southern Nevada Donor Services, offered grieving families a way to eliminate expensive funeral costs: free cremation in exchange for donating a loved one's body to "advance medical studies.
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For example, "space burials," touted by one company, require cremation first, and a Georgia-based company that creates an artificial reef out of your remains also relies on cremated remains.
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But, as one mortician notes in the full report, cremation probably "isn't paying the bills" like it used to for some funeral homes—which is where the money comes in.
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Each stage has text directions, and I was not allowed by the mechanics to, say, accidentally shave off a person's eyebrows or leave in a pacemaker for an explosive cremation.
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Interrupting a mundane story about visiting a cemetery with his French girlfriend, he detoured into the details of his mother's cremation (mixing in a few sex jokes for good measure).
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The for-profit facility took dead bodies from relatives on the pretense of using them for scientific research, in exchange giving the deceased's relatives a free cremation service later on.
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The parents were on their way to a cremation ground when they noticed "some movements" inside one of the polythene bags that the hospital gave them with the babies' bodies.
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Burials are deeply embedded in Christian tradition, and in the United States and elsewhere many dioceses still run graveyards and cemeteries, though cremation and other alternatives are on the rise.
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How will they shoulder the additional expense of burial and cremation services (which could cost around $2000, according to an estimate from director of the Funeral Consumers Alliance of Texas)?
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Mayor Giorgio Gori wrote to neighboring towns seeking help with cremation, saying the ashes from the cremated bodies would be brought back to Bergamo, the local L'Ecio Di Bergamo reported.
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Multiply this by the roughly 1 million bodies that are cremated annually in the United States, and you get 270,000 tons of carbon dioxide released each year due to cremation.
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The cremation pyre of Rama VI in 1926 was smaller still: Even though an attempt to overthrow the monarchy in 1912 had failed, complaints about its extravagance had grown louder.
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Although the new king, Maha Vajiralongkorn, formally ascended to the throne after the death of his father, his coronation as King Rama X won't take place until after the cremation.
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On her cremation marketing website, a donor could simply select from a drop-down menu, fill out a few forms, click "Add to Cart," and enter a credit card number.
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When someone asks for advice on how to get a cremation or burial at a reasonable price, Slocum said he tells them to check out five or six funeral homes.
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But nothing quite excited my own lifelong quest for being in proximity to the divine like the Pashupatinath Temple complex, Nepal's holiest Hindu shrine, where I witnessed my first cremation.
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For many people, the carbon dioxide impact of cremation and the high costs and toxic pollutants of embalming are not what they want for their final statement on this planet.
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Catching wind of these issues, entrepreneurs are "disrupting" the funeral industry, with companies and organizations offering new services — like pressing a loved one's ashes into vinyl — and streamlining the cremation process.
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"Prayuth wants to delay the election but he knows that after the king's cremation, there will be pressure for an election," said Kan Yuenyong of the Siam Intelligence Unit think tank.
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In New York, for example, direct cremation might run as little as $27 or as much as $2181,63 — more than 26 times as much, according to data from comparison site Parting.com.
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Most people in Kenya oppose cremation, often on cultural grounds, echoing feelings elsewhere in sub-Saharan Africa where traditional beliefs are often respected even among those devoted to Christianity or Islam.
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Given the huge crowds who camped for days to witness rituals associated with the cremation of King Bhumibol, the turnout for the procession will be a marker of King Vajiralongkorn's popularity.
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Their nephew, John Gaspari, spoke with an employee and entered into a verbal agreement to transport Huskey's body from the nursing home to the funeral home for cremation and related services.
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Artist Ryan Almighty tells TMZ that he recently gave one of Manson's longtime fanboys an arm tattoo for the ages -- which featured the real (dead) guy's leftover ashes from his cremation.
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"The situation gets very bad here sometimes – there is fighting between groups, between Hindus and Muslims," said Bhagwati Prasad, who sells material for Hindu cremation ceremonies outside a temple in Lucknow.
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"The situation gets very bad here sometimes - there is fighting between groups, between Hindus and Muslims," said Bhagwati Prasad, who sells materials for Hindu cremation ceremonies outside a temple in Lucknow.
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The process is seen as better for the environment than traditional cremation, but there has been confusion about the process, and religious groups are unsure if they want to allow it.
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The mourners waited to start the cremation until Mr. Khalsa's oldest son, Narendar Singh Khalsa, had arrived from Jalalabad, his left hand in a sling, his white clothes covered in blood.
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While consumers have turned to cremation for many reasons, an urn with cremated remains — or cremains, as the funeral industry refers to them — takes up far less space than a coffin.
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The 2017 law required health care facilities that provide care to pregnant women to dispose of fetal remains by burial, cremation, incineration followed by burial, or steam disinfection followed by burial.
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There was also a government-mandated cremation order in place for families to see to within 12 hours of a loved one's death, which he said he and his family followed.
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Last year the Vatican took note of what it called an "unstoppable increase" in cremation by encouraging Catholics to see that cremated remains were deposited in cemeteries or other approved places.
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The handling of his cremation extended that publicity drive, and officials showed reporters in Shenyang a slide show of the funeral, even as they stressed their respect for the family's privacy.
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On Tuesday, as Mr. Kuchibhotla's body was carried to the cremation ground, dozens of regional camera crews followed, their anchormen staging on-air debates on whether Indian immigrants should return home.
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De Vogue: The court is considering whether to take up an Indiana law -- signed by then Governor Mike Pence -- that requires fetal remains to be disposed of by burial or cremation.
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I also vaguely remember my father telling me that at some point the earth is going to run out of space to bury people, so cremation is friendlier to the environment.
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That, combined with his almost comical frugality (I already had been warned I would need to find the cheapest cremation place in New York) had often threatened to sink our marriage.
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In Japan, where the cremation rate is nearly 43 percent, a traditional Buddhist funeral ceremony includes placing drops of water on the lips of the dead before cleaning and dressing them.
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In addition to the tours, the cathedral is bringing the catacombs into the 21st century (and raising extra income) by selling cremation niches for those looking for a final resting place.
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Earlier this year, former Indiana governor, now Vice President-elect, Mike Pence signed into law a package abortion regulations including the requirement that fetal remains be disposed by cremation or burial.
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A two-page instruction issuing new rules on cremation also said that there were even some cases where a Christian funeral could be denied to those who request that ashes be scattered.
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It's actually the late musician's jaw-dropping urn: a gleaming, custom-made, 3D-printed ceramic receptacle designed by Foreverence, a company that operates like a custom cake shop, only for cremation memorials.
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Chanting the sacred prayer "Ram Naam Sathya Hain" ("The name of Lord Ram is the truth"), the family members took the corpse towards the river Ganga, for one last dip before cremation.
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Even a simple direct cremation — with no ceremonies, viewing or casket — can range from $495 to $2250,2400, according to a new survey from the Consumer Federation of America and Funeral Consumers Alliance.
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I think cremation families have the same desire for meaningful expressions of life and legacy as more traditional burial families, yet this was a need and a market segment that went ignored.
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On November 1, as Daniel Gallegos' head and the heads of six other donors were returning from Israel to UTN in Arizona for cremation, someone noticed a discrepancy on the shipping documents.
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In addition to its gentleness and cost (aquamation for dogs runs anywhere from $150 to $400, while cremation is around $100), veterinarians and pet funeral homes began to market aquamation's environmental benefits.
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On the way to the cremation ground, approximately two hours later, the family found the boy still breathing after noticing "some movements" inside one of the polythene bags containing the babies' bodies.
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This one-page sheet of paper concludes with the name of the funeral home that will oversee the cremation of my remains and the site of the cemetery plot for the ashes.
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They include a report about Wallenberg's cremation, and another quoting Viktor Abakumov, who preceded Serov as head of state security but was tried and executed in 1954 in the last Stalin purges.
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I was more bothered by how commercialized the pet cremation business had become — with special packages that required choosing which urn to buy or how many monks would pray for your pet.
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"It's usually two persons at a cremation, and normally we would both be there hands-on," said Clay Dippel, a provisional funeral director and embalmer at the Bradshaw-Carter home in Houston.
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While the king took the throne after the death of his father, his formal coronation follows a mourning period for King Bhumibol, whose royal cremation was held a year after his death.
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The cremation rate in 2016 achieved a milestone, edging past 50 percent to 50.2 percent, up from 48.5 percent in 19193, according to a report issued recently by the funeral directors' association.
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Soon after, though, came a rule that will require the burial or cremation of all fetal remains in Texas -- adding a new emotional and financial burden for women, including those who miscarry.
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Japan is doing a great job of combining the traditions, seeing the dead body, showing up for the cremation, having the kotsuage (the ceremony where they transfer the bones into the urn).
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Monday, The Center for Reproductive Rights filed a fresh suit against the state of Texas over new regulations that mandate the burial or cremation of embryonic and fetal tissues that result from abortion.
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In big cities, which grew quickly over that period, cremation is now nearly universal—in cramped urban areas economics, as much as diktat, has helped to determine how to deal with the dead.
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BANGKOK (Reuters) - A woman's 750-km (470-mile) trek to see the late Thai king's cremation ceremony was only one example of the level of religious devotion on display in Thailand on Thursday.
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One of the tenets of National Funeral Directors Association's Certified Crematory Operator Program™ is to ensure that the crematory operator has the necessary information about the decedent to conduct the cremation safely.
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O'Connell, the current Science Care CEO, said about 100 funeral homes partner with Science Care to offer free cremation, but that 4 out of 5 people donate for a reason other than cost.
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LONDON — Parents in England will no longer be charged burial and cremation fees for children after Prime Minister Theresa May announced that the government would set up a fund to cover the charges.
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Some states have begun to allow alkaline hydrolosis or "resomation," a kind of wet cremation process if you will, with a similar result where all you get back is the bone, Jorgenson said.
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"Foreverence has helped hundreds of families tell the stories of their loved ones lives through individually designed, 3D printed, ceramic cremation urns and memorials," Pete Saari, CEO and founder of Foreverence tells PEOPLE.
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Certainly, their approach beats the one used by some of their competitors, like Cremation Solutions, which has tried selling the idea of putting people's remains in Uncanny Valleyish 3D-printed busts, Futurama style.
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The remains were unclaimed by parents, the statement said, and the funeral home did not have the legal authority to conduct a final disposition — such as a burial or cremation — of those remains.
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While King Bhumibol's long reign was viewed as a steadying influence during an era when the country cycled through 30 prime ministers, his cremation comes at a time of political uncertainty in Thailand.
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On Wednesday night, 15 Italian military trucks were seen ferrying about 60 bodies from morgues across the city to cremation sites in 12 other Northern Italian cities after Bergamo's mayor called for aid.
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Partly in keeping with royal funerals in Europe — the place perceived then as the vanguard of modernity — no celebratory events were held, but the general public was allowed to attend the cremation itself.
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So they have said, 'If I want it simple and I don't want it in a church or a synagogue and I don't want a rabbi or a minister, then I want cremation.
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Cremation rates have risen 25% in the last 20 years, and are expected to continue to increase in the coming decades, but there aren't yet norms around ceremony or celebration of cremated remains.
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But the cemetery could not offer a cremation because it had no natural gas, which is in ever shorter supply even though the OPEC nation holds some of the world's largest energy reserves.
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"The cost of cremation increased by 108 percent in just one week," said Ana Hernandez, 36, who is making arrangements to cremate her sister in a cemetery in the western city of Barquisimeto.
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