cremate
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He spent more than £9,000 on camping expenses in 2022, the same year he failed to cremate Jasmine Beverley's baby Sunny Beverley-Conlin, Ball said.
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 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
He said he was inspired by the work of Dr William Price, a self-proclaimed druid who was put on trial in Cardiff for trying to cremate his deceased five-month old son in 1884.
From BBC ● Mar. 31, 2026
Dying in the year 700, Dosho ordered his disciples to cremate his body at Kurihara, and, two years later, the Dowager Empress Jito willed that her corpse should be similarly disposed of.
From A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era by F. (Frank) Brinkley
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
During a search of the home last week, police also found the cremated remains of another surrogate child that had been mailed to the house; the baby died shortly after birth in Florida, Teymouri said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2026
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
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
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
When Ernest died, in 1986, he was cremated, and his ashes were given to Cowboy in a box.
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
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First reported by the Scottish Sun, the family who thought they were cremating their loved one are said to be inconsolable.
From BBC ● Dec. 27, 2025
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
Officials also recommended sealing corpses in impermeable bags and cremating them within 24 hours.
From New York Times ● Dec. 15, 2022
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
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