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The disposal of human corpses, also called final disposition, is the practice and process of dealing with the remains of a deceased human being.Disposal methods may need to account for the fact that soft tissue will decompose relatively rapidly, while the skeleton will remain intact for thousands of years under certain conditions.
Human composting (also known as soil transformation [1]) is a process for the final disposition of human remains in which microbes convert a deceased body into compost. It is also called natural organic reduction (NOR) or terramation. [2]
respect for mortal remains; respect for the wishes of people who have died, where these can be known or reasonably inferred; respect for the views of local communities, relatives, and/or guardians; respect for the scientific value of human remains; promotion of negotiated agreements on disposition of human remains
A 59-year-old man was arrested after human remains were discovered at one of his Indiana properties as they searched for 17-year-old Valerie Tindall, a teenage girl who went missing six months ago.
A man who was reported missing in 1993 has been named as a victim of an Indiana serial killer whose property was found littered with 10,000 “burnt and crushed” skeletal remains.. Herb ...
The appearance of cremated remains after grinding is one of the reasons they are called ashes, although a non-technical term sometimes used is "cremains", [60] [61] a portmanteau of "cremated" and "remains". (The Cremation Association of North America prefers that the word "cremains" not be used for referring to "human cremated remains".
The remains of an Indiana soldier who was killed in France during World War II have been identified by U.S. military scientists more than 75 years after his death. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting ...
A declaration that a person is dead resembles other forms of "preventive adjudication", such as the declaratory judgment. [1] Different jurisdictions have different legal standards for obtaining such declaration and in some jurisdictions a presumption of death may arise after a person has been missing under certain circumstances and a certain ...