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burial
noun as in laying in of dead body
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Nicola went through their burial reports, and found just one man had been buried wearing sergeant stripes from the Gloucester Regiment, as well as one major.
The find was enough to confirm Logan's burial site, allowing for a headstone to be placed at a ceremony in 2016, finally marking Logan's resting place 122 years after the striker flew highest.
In Texas, the county subject to the NBC investigation changed its policy to provide burial or cremation for unclaimed bodies.
Each burial or cremation can cost thousands of dollars, and the new policy in a single Texas county, for example, will cost it $675,000 a year.
They were anguished enough by the death of their child that they saw to it that he was buried beneath two stone slabs in a cave, where the depth and method of burial preserved his remains to the extent that his teeth were recovered along with enough other skeletal material to make DNA analysis possible.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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