ashes
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Add to this one that emerges from a different patrimony: the rise of Notre-Dame Cathedral from the ashes of a devastating fire, exactly as the people wanted.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026
Then one day last October, as he and his siblings were at a funeral home choosing an urn for their father’s ashes, Stafford, 49, got an unexpected message.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2026
Though her urn remains in the place she loved most, Landers hopes, someday, to bury her ashes in the Hollywood Forever Cemetery next to her youngest son.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 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
After the service, Gram’s ashes are buried next to Grandpa’s, under an old oak tree.
From "How to Disappear Completely" by Ali Standish
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