cremate

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The company would cremate the parts of his body that weren't used and return his ashes free of charge.

From BBC • Aug. 30, 2025

Those who opt to bury or cremate on their own pay a funeral home.

From Slate • Oct. 3, 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

The natives in the neighborhood of Portland Bay, in the southwestern part of South Australia, cremate their dead by placing the corpse in a hollow tree and setting fire to it....

From Fetichism in West Africa Forty Years' Observations of Native Customs and Superstitions by Nassau, Robert Hamill