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As for Spivey, she cried before heading to a funeral home for her daughter, dreading having to fill out a death certificate and decide whether to cremate or bury her firstborn child.

From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026

Finally, the Daily Mirror reports on families calling for a public inquiry into the funeral director who failed to bury or cremate people and gave bereaved relatives the ashes of strangers.

From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026

Wellman, owner of Sorrento Valley Pet Cemetery, stepped in to offer to cremate the remaining bodies, and says Angel Paws’ operation was “disorganized and unprofessional.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 5, 2025

Their families then get to decide if they want to cremate or bury them, with the funeral costs covered by the university.

From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2025

So perhaps he, still willing to please, reclaims the dead cat and the cabbage stalk, and proceeds to cremate them in the privacy of the back yard.

From New Faces by Charles F. Neagle

Not to worry, he said, promising to put his new cremates to work: “We’ll catch up next weekend.”

From Washington Post ● May 31, 2020

It’s July 29, 1981, when Patrick cremates his mother—the day, as it happens, that Prince Charles marries Lady Diana Spencer.

From The New Yorker ● Jun. 22, 2018

Nowadays, if you die in Pierce County and you fall into two categories - both indigent and unclaimed - the county cremates your body and disposes of your remains.

From Washington Times ● Sep. 3, 2016

The administrator’s office cremates unidentified migrants instead of burying them — a switch that saves the county roughly $860 a person, said Rosie Blankenship, assistant public administrator for Imperial County.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2016

A woman always embalms the corpse of a dead love; a man wisely cremates it, and plants a new love in the ashes.

From A Guide to Men Being Encore Reflections of a Bachelor Girl by Helen Rowland

Cemeteries need not take up hundreds of acres, since mausoleums can contain thousands of cremated remains in much smaller space.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026

Only 20% to 40% of cremated remains are buried or interred at a cemetery, according to the Cremation Association of North America.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026

She was home alone and needed help lifting her beloved pet’s body into her car so she could take it to be cremated.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026

She had wanted to bury her mother in their home village, but for now that is impossible, so she has been cremated and her ashes sit in Lyubov's apartment in Belgorod, about 100 miles away.

From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026

He was carried on his charpoy to an empty place in one of the fields to be cremated.

From "Homeless Bird" by Gloria Whelan

And when we’re dealing with a liminal state of pregnancy and loss, everything gets more complicated because you’re not burying or cremating a fully grown human.

From Slate ● Oct. 3, 2024

The family has also said Mexican authorities and funeral home representatives have repeatedly suggested cremating Blair’s remains.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 19, 2023

Workers in New Delhi on Tuesday building new platforms for cremating bodies, as the coronavirus takes an increasing toll on the country.Credit...

From New York Times ● Apr. 28, 2021

The victim's family accused local police of cremating her body without their consent, although the authorities denied this.

From BBC ● Dec. 18, 2020

After a burial, brushwood was heaped round the walls of the tomb and set on fire, partially cremating the body and the objects that were interred with it within.

From Early Israel and the Surrounding Nations by A. H. (Archibald Henry) Sayce