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cremate

[kree-meyt] / ˈkri meɪt /
VERB
burn
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Those who opt to bury or cremate on their own pay a funeral home.

From Slate • Oct. 3, 2024

“I’m never going to get a dime from them, so, I don’t know, it’s a little frustrating,” Crystina Page, who hired the funeral home to cremate her son’s remains in 2019, told the Associated Press.

From BBC • Aug. 6, 2024

She has since ended the contract, she said, and We Care has retrieved the ashes for all the pets it hired her to cremate.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 18, 2024

When Cheryl Irvin’s 72-year-old husband died at their home near Vancouver from a heart attack Feb. 25, she expected to obtain his death certificate, cremate him and hold a memorial within a week.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 12, 2024

In the early days of the Roman power it was customary to cremate the dead, the ashes being preserved in urns that were ranged in cells known as Columbaria, generally hewn in the living rock.

From Architecture by Bell, Nancy R E Meugens