cremation

cremate | American Dictionary

cremate
verb[ T ]
us/ˈkri·meɪt, krɪˈmeɪt/
to burn a dead person’s body

cremation

noun[ C/U ]us/krɪˈmeɪ·ʃən/
[ U ]The body was sent for cremation.

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These gardens were designed not to accommodate full body burials, but to provide a place in which cremated remains could be strewn or interred.
The chamber floor is in the foreground, showing (nearest) an incised pottery cup, to the left (southeast) of which are cremated human remains.
The bodies of these individuals had been cremated.
Because the remains were cremated and because the urns and the monument lack hieroglyphs, it is difficult to know who the two personages were.
Evident importance was placed on returning the cremated bone fragments to the chambers inside the ollas.
During this period, between one third and one half of the skeleton remains in central graves were cremated.
Inside, we found the jumbled cremated remains of at least three adults, one sub-adult, and two infants.
It protects the life of every individual by ensuring that nobody can be buried or cremated without a valid death certificate which attests to the cause of death.
In order to avoid pollution involved in eating a normally reserved animal, the normal conventions of food preparation were reversed, and the cattle, or at least their skeletons, were cremated.
In a sense, however, it may still be argued that the dead were cremated, and in the final sections of this essay such a view will indeed be put forward.
The fact that this never happened suggests that the bodies were cremated on the roof on purpose, most likely as part of the above suggested death ritual.
While considering this data, it struck me that there could be some form of conceptual linkage between roasting and cremating, as both transform the animal by direct contact with fire.
If someone died of illness or old age, the physician delivered an official statement that the person died from 'natural causes', after which the body could be buried or cremated.
Pottery offerings located in the northwestern part of the floor of the shaft, and cremated human remains located just south of the letterboard, in front of the tomb door.
This is particularly true where the funeral directors managing the crematorium are under pressure to cremate within 24 hours of death.
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