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Funeral pyre in Ubud, Bali.Cremation is the preferred method of disposal of the dead in Buddhism. [1]Cremation rates vary widely across the world. [2] As of 2019, international statistics report that countries with large Buddhist and Hindu populations like Bhutan, Cambodia, Hong Kong, Japan, Myanmar, Nepal, Tibet, Sri Lanka, South Korea, Thailand and India have a cremation rate ranging from 80 ...
The Chattri is a war memorial in the English city of Brighton and Hove. It is sited 500 feet (150 m) above the city on the South Downs above the suburb of Patcham, and is accessible only by bridleway. It stands on the site where 53 (37 Hindu and 16 Sikh) Indian soldiers who fought for the British Empire were cremated during the First World War.
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 ...
An Ubud cremation ceremony in 2005. A pyre (Ancient Greek: πυρά, romanized: purá; from πῦρ (pûr) 'fire'), [1] [2] also known as a funeral pyre, is a structure, usually made of wood, for burning a body as part of a funeral rite or execution. As a form of cremation, a body is placed upon or under the pyre, which is then set on fire.
In addition, 7 Australian personnel of the same war – 2 sailors, 4 soldiers, 1 airman – who were cremated at Karrakatta Crematorium but whose ashes had been scattered or buried at places where CWGC commemoration was not possible are listed by name on the Western Australia Cremation Memorial at the separate Perth War Cemetery. [28]
Cremation became more common than full-body burial in the 1930s, and more common in all areas of Japan in the 1970s. [6] As of 2010, Japan had a cremation rate of 99.94%. It is less common in rural areas and in the Okinawan archipelago where the bones of the decomposed body are exhumed, washed, and reburied ( senkotsu ).
Osama bin Laden (1957–2011); [33] one U.S. official stated that "finding a country willing to accept the remains of the world's most wanted terrorist would have been difficult". [34] It was also done to prevent his burial place from becoming a "terrorist shrine". [35] Dick Clark (1929–2012), cremated and ashes were scattered into the ...
In the extermination camps created by the authorities of Nazi Germany during the World War II with the "final solutions to the Jewish question", crematoria were widely used for the disposal of corpses. [13] [14] The most technically advanced cremation ovens were those developed by the company “Topf and Sons” from Erfurt. [citation needed]