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  2. Burial vault (enclosure) - Wikipedia

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    The company dominates the American burial vault market today, with about 12 percent of all vault and liner sales. [2] A burial vault encloses a coffin on all four sides, the top, and the bottom. Modern burial vaults are lowered into the grave, and the coffin lowered into the vault. A lid is then lowered to cover the coffin and seal the vault.

  3. Grave - Wikipedia

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    Burial vault. A vault is a structure built within the grave to receive the body. It may be used to prevent crushing of the remains, allow for multiple burials such as a family vault, retrieval of remains for transfer to an ossuary, or because it forms a monument. Grave backfill. The soil returned to the grave cut following burial.

  4. Burial vault (tomb) - Wikipedia

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    A burial vault is a structural stone or brick-lined underground tomb or 'burial chamber' for the interment of a single body or multiple bodies underground. The main difference between entombment in a subterranean vault and a traditional in-ground burial is that the coffin is not placed directly in the earth, but is placed in a burial chamber ...

  5. Coffin home - Wikipedia

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    A coffin home (simplified Chinese: 义庄; traditional Chinese: 義莊; pinyin: yìzhuāng; Cantonese Yale: yih-jōng; Japanese: gisō (義荘)) is a temporary coffin depository where the coffins containing the cadavers of recently deceased people are temporarily stored while awaiting transport to the place of burial.

  6. Burial - Wikipedia

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    Bodies are often buried wrapped in a shroud or placed in a coffin (or in some cases, a casket). A larger container may be used, such as a ship. In the U.S., coffins are usually covered by a grave liner or a burial vault, which prevents the coffin from collapsing under the weight of the earth or floating away during a flood.

  7. City fills in underground vaults of downtown buildings. Why ...

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    In 2003, a vault was revealed under the Grand Theatre by workers who tore down a section of moldy drywall in the basement. The vault appeared to be in danger of collapsing, with the owner ...

  8. Rahm Emanuel’s Chicago Infrastructure Trust

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    Chicago will face another lost decade.”--Rahm Emanuel, 1 March 2012 $7 bn Trust Project Partners 501(c)3 non-profit status $1.0 bn already committed for public building Energy Retrofit Private & Not-for-Profit Funding Sources: unions, foundations, equity, mutual, pension, sovereign funds Pioneer Private Partners, Energy Retrofit project:

  9. Coffin - Wikipedia

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    A coffin may be buried in the ground directly, placed in a burial vault or cremated. Alternatively it may be entombed above ground in a mausoleum, a chapel, a church, or in a loculus within catacombs. Some countries practice one form almost exclusively, whereas in others it may depend on the individual cemetery.

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