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  2. Body bag - Wikipedia

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    A body bag being folded by some policemen and sailors in 2006. A body bag in the morgue of the Charité in Berlin , Germany. A body bag, also known as a cadaver pouch or human remains pouch (HRP), is a non-porous bag designed to contain a human body, used for the storage and transportation of shrouded corpses. [1]

  3. Cremation - Wikipedia

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    Cremation is a method of final disposition of a dead body through burning. [1] Cremation may serve as a funeral or post-funeral rite and as an alternative to burial. In some countries, including India, Nepal, and Syria, cremation on an open-air pyre is an ancient tradition. Starting in the 19th century, cremation was introduced or reintroduced ...

  4. Burial in Anglo-Saxon England - Wikipedia

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    A later documented case occurred in the 17th century when Sir Thomas Browne published a pamphlet entitled Hydrotaphia, Urn Burial (1658), in which he described a number of cremation urns found in Norfolk; although they had been Anglo-Saxon in origin, he mistook them for being Romano-British. Describing these finds, Browne related that "In a ...

  5. Columbarium - Wikipedia

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    The San Francisco Columbarium. A columbarium (/ ˌ k ɒ l əm ˈ b ɛər i. əm /; [1] pl. columbaria), also called a cinerarium, is a structure for the reverential and usually public storage of funerary urns holding cremated remains of the dead.

  6. Burial at sea - Wikipedia

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    The deceased are traditionally cremated on a pyre accompanied by a variety of items, including flowers, herbs, oils and holy river water. The cremation serves as a final sacrifice of the body. The soul escapes the confines of the body when the heat of the fire makes the skull crack, and the body is then remade in the ancestral realm.

  7. Charon's obol - Wikipedia

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    In cremation urns, the coin sometimes adheres to the jawbone of the skull. [38] At Olynthus , 136 coins (mostly bronze, but some silver), were found with burials; in 1932, archaeologists reported that 20 graves had each contained four bronze coins, which they believed were intended for placement in the mouth. [ 39 ]

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