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2. Burial vault (enclosure) - Wikipedia

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   A burial vault (also known as a burial liner, grave vault, and grave liner) is a container, formerly made of wood or brick but more often today made of metal or concrete, that encloses a coffin to help prevent a grave from sinking. Wooden coffins (or caskets) decompose, and often the weight of earth on top of the coffin, or the passage of heavy ...

3. Coffin - Wikipedia

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   A coffin is a funerary box used for viewing or keeping a corpse, for either burial or cremation. Coffins are sometimes referred to as caskets , particularly in American English. Any box in which the dead are buried is a coffin, and while a casket was originally regarded as a box for jewelry , use of the word "casket" in this sense began as a ...

4. Columbarium - Wikipedia

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   In Buddhism, ashes may be placed in a columbarium (in Chinese, a naguta ("bone-receiving pagoda"); in Japanese, a nōkotsudō ("bone-receiving hall"), which can be either attached to or a part of a Buddhist temple or cemetery. This practice allows survivors to visit the temple and carry out traditional memorials and ancestor rites.

5. Funeral - Wikipedia

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   A funeral is a ceremony connected with the final disposition of a corpse, such as a burial or cremation, with the attendant observances. [1] Funerary customs comprise the complex of beliefs and practices used by a culture to remember and respect the dead, from interment, to various monuments, prayers, and rituals undertaken in their honour.

6. List of mortuary customs - Wikipedia

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   Beatification is a recognition accorded by the Catholic Church of a deceased person's entrance into Heaven; Bed burial is a type of burial in which the deceased person is buried in the ground, lying upon a bed. Burial at sea is the disposal of human remains in the ocean, normally from a ship or boat. It is regularly performed by navies, and is ...

7. Vatican eases rules on the ashes of the dead - AOL

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   A small part of a dead person's cremated ashes may be stored in a place that was dear to them rather than in a church or cemetery, the Vatican said on Tuesday, softening its previous stance on the ...

8. Grandma's Last Dying Wish Was To Be Buried In An M&Ms Casket ...

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   The family's matriarch, who happened to be a huge fan of M&Ms, was buried in an M&Ms-themed casket. A TikTok slideshow from the funeral, which has received just shy of 5 million views, shows ...

9. Chasse (casket) - Wikipedia

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   A chasse, châsse or box reliquary is a shape commonly used in medieval metalwork for reliquaries and other containers. To the modern eye the form resembles a house, though a tomb or church was more the intention, [ 1 ] with an oblong base, straight sides and two sloping top faces meeting at a central ridge, often marked by a raised strip and ...