cremate

Example Sentences

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

From Slate • Oct. 3, 2024

Not wanting to burden her neighbour with Ted's body until the family returned from holiday, Ms Knight organised for Heavenly Pets Crematorium to collect the body and cremate it.

From BBC • Sep. 6, 2024

Nuñez and his partner, Nejyredth Valasquez, run We Care Pet Cremations, which offers to pick up and cremate pets and return the ashes in Los Angeles, Ventura, San Bernardino, Kern and Orange counties.

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

Again, it was a common custom for a raiding party to cremate their dead in the enemy's country, when there was no time to carry them home for the usual obsequies.

From The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead Vol. II by Frazer, James George, Sir