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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

A disgraced funeral director who failed to bury or cremate people and gave bereaved relatives the ashes of strangers has been jailed for 20 years.

From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026

Since then, he has admitted 67 offences, including failing to bury and cremate people, and giving out wrong ashes.

From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026

Former undertaker Robert Bush admitted 67 offences, including failing to bury and cremate people at Legacy Independent Funeral Directors in Hull.

From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026

When are we going to reform this and to cremate our dead, so that we may go to church in safety and with no fear of detriment to our physical well-being? 

From Crying for the Light, Vol. 3 [of 3] or Fifty Years Ago by J. Ewing (James Ewing) Ritchie

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

Nikole Bresciani, president and chief executive officer of the Inland Valley Humane Society & SPCA, said officers seized 405 cats and 119 cremated animal remains.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026

The dead are traditionally cremated on funeral pyres in Hindu-majority Nepal, and the burials are viewed as long-term storage until families can retrieve them.

From Barron's ● Aug. 30, 2026

She and her partner, Callum Ellerby, were told their baby was cremated on 10 May 2021.

From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026

Authorities were tipped off to the crimes after one of the dog owners told authorities that they received a message from the trainer saying their dog had died in its sleep and was cremated.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026

“No grave for me. I’m gonna be cremated like my family.”

From "They Both Die at the End" by Adam Silvera

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

The great occasions for dancing were before going to war, and when cremating the bodies of their dead.

From Indians of the Yosemite Valley and Vicinity Their History, Customs and Traditions by Galen Clark