cremate
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There were also the deceased, whose bodies he had been trusted to bury or cremate with dignity.
From BBC ● Aug. 2, 2026
Finally, the Daily Mirror reports on families calling for a public inquiry into the funeral director who failed to bury or cremate people and gave bereaved relatives the ashes of strangers.
From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026
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
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
I’ll build a fire here, and we’ll cremate your past.
From Cavanaugh: Forest Ranger A Romance of the Mountain West by Hamlin Garland
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
When the school finishes using them, the cadavers are often cremated and remains returned to their families, or buried in the university's medical cemetery, according to the indictment.
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026
Of the remains discovered at the Hessle Road premises, most were "of older people above the age of 60" and about six bodies were waiting to be cremated.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 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
They cremated their dead, spoke the Germanic ancestors of Old English and were pagans.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026
Uncle Willie Flittman said he wants to be cremated and his ashes scattered from the Statue of Liberty.
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
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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
The steady shift from burying bodies to cremating them has been accelerated by the pandemic, according to funeral directors and industry surveys.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 2, 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
We were here shown the cremating ovens in which the bodies of the departed priests are disposed of, and also the crude cells and the large refectory of the order.
From Due West or Round the World in Ten Months by Maturin Murray Ballou
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