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His body is interred at the Washington headquarters of the Scottish Rite of Freemasonry, which also contains a small museum in his honour.

But then Scott Michaels, the founder of Dearly Departed Tours, discovered that her cremated remains were interred in a rose garden under her married name, Elsa Lanchester Laughton.

From Scotland to China, and from Iceland to West Africa, they have been interred under heavy stones, staked or nailed into graves.

It notes that mass burials and mass graves were "not a customary way of interring the dead in the Roman Empire", and were mostly used in extreme situations and mass casualty events.

Having said that, the inter will always be preferred simply because it is much more flexible - it can be used in quite heavy rain right up to when it's almost dry.