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
Former undertaker Robert Bush has admitted 67 offences, including failing to bury and cremate people.
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
Wellman, owner of Sorrento Valley Pet Cemetery, stepped in to offer to cremate the remaining bodies, and says Angel Paws’ operation was “disorganized and unprofessional.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 5, 2025
If you can not keep him embalmed on your shelf, is it not the wiser part, and the kinder, to cremate him?”
From The Book of Khalid by Ameen Fares Rihani
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
She was home alone and needed help lifting her beloved pet’s body into her car so she could take it to be cremated.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 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
David Skoczulek, spokesman for 60 West - the facility where Smith lived in his final years - told the BBC that Smith passed away in his sleep there in June and was later cremated.
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 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
When I got home, Mom had already cremated him and scattered his ashes on the ocean she loved.
From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam
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When the child died, it is alleged they initially thought of cremating the body in the back garden of their home before contacting a funeral director.
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2025
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
Several political parties in the country’s Congress have expressed support for cremating his remains, and analysts expect lawmakers to approve the bill.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 16, 2021
Workers in New Delhi on Tuesday building new platforms for cremating bodies, as the coronavirus takes an increasing toll on the country.Credit...
From New York Times ● Apr. 28, 2021
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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