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the general norm, straying away from anywhere that was not a family home. Dying close to home, with friends and family, was considered a 'good death', while dying away from home was considered a 'bad death'. This gradually changed as the upper and middle class started holding funerals in the mortuaries of hospitals. This posed an issue for hospitals because of the rapid increase in funerals being held and maxing occupancy. This quickly resolved when a law was passed to allow the civilian population holding funerals in the mortuaries of hospitals. The lower class quickly followed suit, copying the newly set traditions of the upper classes. With this change, cremation also practice more as an alternative to traditional burials. Cremation was first introduced by Buddhism, and was quickly banned in 1470. It was not until the Japanese colonization period that cremation was reintroduced in 1945 and later on lifted the ban. It took until 1998 for cremation to rapidly grow in popularity.
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pressed down into a powder and returned to the associated family. The outcome is comparable to cremation, but results in an environmentally friendly process that does not release chemical emissions and greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, as was confirmed after a review by the Health Council of the Netherlands. After this process, the water used goes to a regular water treatment facility where it is filtered and cleaned and returned to the water cycle. At this time, resomation is permitted for commercial use in areas throughout the U.S. However, several other countries, including the UK are considering using this technology within their medical schools and universities.
1337:, burial law prescribes both the location of burial and burial practices and precludes cremation of the dead. It is forbidden to carry the body for more than one hour's journey from the place of death. Before interment the body should be wrapped in a shroud of silk or cotton, and a ring should be placed on its finger bearing the inscription "I came forth from God, and return unto Him, detached from all save Him, holding fast to His Name, the Merciful, the Compassionate". The coffin should be of crystal, stone or hard fine wood. Also, before interment, a specific Prayer for the Dead is ordained. The body should be placed with the feet facing the 1183:, built to house corpses that are not considered 'dead'. The deceased can be held in Tongkonan for years, waiting for their families to collect the necessary resources to hold a funeral. The Tongkonan represents both the identity of the family and the process of birth and death. The process of birth and death is shown by having the houses that individuals are born in be the same structure as the Tongkonan, houses that individuals die in. Up until the funeral the deceased being housed in the Tongkonan are symbolically treated as members of the family, still being cared for by family members. 63: 691:
aspects (need for connectivity and land take imposed by cemeteries), two positive results can be achieved: protecting memories of the past and connecting ecosystems with multiple-use corridors. Green burials appeal to people for economic reasons. Traditional burial practices can be a financial burden causing some to turn to green burials as a cheaper alternative. Some people view green burials as more meaningful, especially for those who have a connection to a piece of land, such as current residence or other places that hold meaning for them.
1999: 709:. Such burials go beyond other forms of natural burial, which aim to prevent environmental damage caused by conventional burial techniques, by actually increasing benefits for the environment. The idea is for the burial process to be a net positive for the earth rather than just neutral. Scientists have argued that such burials could potentially generate enough funds to save every endangered species on the planet. The Green Burial Council certifies natural and conservation burial grounds in the U.S. and Canada. 794: 1622:, are secluded in private gated gardens or mausoleums with no public access. A number of tombs are also kept from the public eye. Forest Lawn's Court of Honor indicates that some of its crypts have plots which are reserved for individuals who may be "voted in" as "Immortals"; no amount of money can purchase a place. Photographs taken at Forest Lawn are not permitted to be published, and their information office usually refuses to reveal exactly where the remains of famous people are buried. 2017:, is the act of digging something up, especially a corpse. This is most often done to relocate a body to a different burial spot; families may make this decision to locate the deceased in a more pertinent or convenient place. In shared family burial sites (e.g. a married couple), if the previously deceased person has been buried for an insufficient period of time, the second body may be buried elsewhere until it is safe to relocate it to the shared grave. 1635:
that the second casket may be placed over it without disturbing the first. In many states in Australia all graves are designated two or three depth (depending on the water table) for multiple burials, at the discretion of the burial rights holder, with each new interment atop the previous coffin separated by a thin layer of earth. As such all graves are dug to greater depth for the initial burial than the traditional six feet to facilitate this practice.
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the earth will also be returning nutrients to the environment, in a way that is less expensive than other available burial methods. Not only are tree pods a more cost effective and environmentally friendly way to memorialize loved ones, this method also offers emotional support. The memories of loved ones will be immortalized through the concept of a deceased person having a medium (trees) that will continue to live and grow.
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her hair, skin, and nails to create a mushroom variety that will best decompose human remains. As the mushrooms grow, they consume the remains within the suit as well as the toxins that are being released by the body. Rhim and her colleagues created this suit as a symbol of a new way for people to think about the relationship between their body after death and the environment.
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focusing on the departed. This study found that modern day funerals focus on the psycho-social-spiritual event. Modern day funerals also help the transition of the recently passed transitioning to the social status of 'the deceased'. The article found that funeral homes do not adhere to traditional religious beliefs, but do follow religious traditions.
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where they help to repair damage to the reefs while also providing new habitats for fish and other sea communities. It has become a new way to memorialize the passing person while also protecting the marine environment. The high cost of the memorial reefs has caused this alternative form of burial to
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Natural burials have been attracting people for reasons outside of environmental and sustainability factors as well. With the expansion of urban centres, ecological corridors gradually disappear. Cemeteries for burial plots preclude alternative uses of the land for a long time. By combining these two
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burying a dead puppy by pushing sand with its own nose. It is presumed, however, that since dogs retain the instinct to bury food, this is what is being depicted in the video. In social insects, ants and termites also bury their dead nestmates depending on the properties of the corpse and the social
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community, slaves quickly familiarized themselves with funeral procedures and the location of gravesites of family and friends. Specific slaves were assigned to prepare dead bodies, build coffins, dig graves, and construct headstones. Slave funerals were typically at night when the workday was over,
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have unique traditions associated with a loved one's death. The death of a loved one sparks a series of events such as smoking out the spirit, a feast, and leaving out the body to decompose. Immediately after death, a smoking ceremony is held in the deceased's home. The smoking ceremonies purpose is
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The tree pod method originated in the UK but is now becoming a more popular method of burial. The definition of natural burial grounds suggests that people are being buried without any kind of formaldehyde-based embalming fluid or synthetic ingredients, and that the bodies that are being returned to
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to dissolve human remains. During this process, the body is put into an enclosed, stainless steel chamber. The chamber fills with the chemical and water solution and is then lightly circulated. After a couple of hours, the body is worn down and bone is the only thing that remains. The bones are then
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are sometimes exhumed to ensure their bodies lie in their correctly marked graves, as their gravesites usually become places for devotees to gather, and also to collect relics. The bodies may also be transferred to a more dignified place. It also serves the purpose to see if they are supernaturally
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At death, a slave's body was wrapped in cloth. The hands were placed across the chest, and a metal plate was placed on top of their hands. The reasoning for the plate was to hinder their return home by suppressing any spirits in the coffin. Often, personal property was buried with slaves to appease
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and her colleagues to address the impact traditional burial approaches have on the environment. It is an eco-friendly process which consists of dressing the cadaver in a bodysuit with mushroom spores woven into it, nicknamed the Infinity Burial Suit. Rhim developed her own mushrooms by feeding them
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According to Margaret Holloway, funerals are believed to be driven by the consumer's choice, personalisation, secularization, and stories that place individual traditional meta-narratives. It has been studied that funeral homes in the UK are most concerned with comforting the grieving, rather than
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As the human population progresses, cultures and traditions change with it. Evolution is generally slow, sometimes more rapid. South Korea's funeral arrangements have drastically changed in the course of only two decades according to Chang-Won Park. Around the 1980s at home funeral ceremonies were
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In North America, private family cemeteries were common among wealthy landowners during the 18th and 19th centuries. Many prominent people were buried in private cemeteries on their respective properties, sometimes in lead-lined coffins. Many of these family cemeteries were not documented and were
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The memorial reef is a natural, alternative approach to burial. The cremated remains of a person are mixed in with concrete and then placed into a mold to make the memorial reef or eternal reef. After the concrete sets, family members are allowed to customize the reef with writing, hand prints and
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or other family members) may wish to be buried in the same plot. In some cases, the coffins (or urns) may simply be buried side by side. In others, one casket may be interred above another. If this is planned for in advance, the first casket may be buried more deeply than is the usual practice so
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The increase in popularity of alternative burials can be seen as a direct choice of the individual's want to distance themselves from religious practices and spiritual locations as well as an opportunity to exercise their act of choice. The desire to live through nature as well as concern for the
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The location of the burial may be determined by taking into account concerns surrounding health and sanitation, religious concerns, and cultural practices. Some cultures keep the dead close to provide guidance to the living, while others "banish" them by locating burial grounds at a distance from
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wrote a number of stories and poems about premature burial, including a story called "The Premature Burial". These works inspired a widespread popular fear of this appalling but unlikely event. Various expedients have been devised to prevent it, including burying telephones or sensors in graves.
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The inclusion of personal effects may be motivated by the beliefs that in the afterlife people will wish to have with them what was important to them on earth. Alternatively, in some cultures, it is felt that, when a person dies, their possessions (and sometimes people connected to them such as
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and placed in the darkness of the nave, then laid in front of the high altar, surrounded by candles. The next day, in front of the whole community, a requiem mass was to be sung and the paschal candle lit . Following this, there were prayers, hymns, special masses, and the body was borne to the
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where real estate is at a premium, burials in government-run cemeteries are disinterred after six years under exhumation order. Remains are either collected privately for cremation or reburied in an urn or niche. Unclaimed burials are exhumed and cremated by the government. Permanent burial in
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They bury their dead with their heads directly downward, because they hold an opinion, that in eleven thousand moons they are all to rise again; in which period the earth (which they conceive to be flat) will turn upside down, and by this means they shall, at their resurrection, be found ready
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is the practice of eating the remains. This may be done for many reasons: for example to partake of their strength, to spiritually "close the circle" by reabsorbing their life into the family or clan, to annihilate an enemy, or due to pathological mental conditions. The
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Slaves were buried oriented East to West, with feet at the Eastern end (head at the Western end, thus raising facing East). According to Christian doctrine, this orientation permitted rising to face the return of Christ without having to turn around upon the call of
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position, with the head vertically below the feet, is highly uncomfortable for any extended period of time, and consequently burial in that attitude (as opposed to attitudes of rest or watchfulness, as above) is highly unusual and generally symbolic. Occasionally
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of the deceased. U.S. law allows disinterment "only for the most compelling of reasons" and with the permission of close relatives and the cemetery official. Also in many countries, permits are required by some governing agency to legally conduct a disinterment.
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Genesis 1:26: And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the
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The majority of Muslim jurors maintain that an individual buried in a mosque must be exhumed and that offering prayers in such a mosque renders the prayer invalid. Jurists, however, hold that mosques built around already existing graves are to be demolished.
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privately run cemeteries is allowed. In Singapore, cremation is preferred by most Singaporeans because burials in Singapore is limited to 15 years. After 15 years, Singaporean graves will be exhumed and the remains will either be cremated or re-interred.
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are known to throw leaves and branches over fallen members of their family groups. In a particularly odd case, an elephant which trampled a human mother and child buried its victims under a pile of leaves before disappearing into the bushes. In 2013, a
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Many cultures practice anonymous burial as a norm, not an exception. For instance, in 2002 a survey for the Federal Guild of German Stonemasons found that, depending on the location within Germany, from 0% to 43% of burials were anonymous. According to
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tree. The goal of this method is to create parks full of trees that loved ones can walk through and mourn, as opposed to a graveyard full of tombstones. This method aims to return the body to the earth in the most environmentally friendly way possible.
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In England and Wales once the top of a coffin has been lowered below ground level in a burial if it is raised again, say for example the grave sides are protruding and need further work, this is considered an exhumation and the
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The body may be dressed in fancy and/or ceremonial clothes. Personal objects of the deceased, such as a favorite piece of jewelry or photograph, may be included with the body. This practice, also known as the inclusion of
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The New Burial Policy, introduced in 1998 to address the issue of land scarcity, limits burial to 15 years. After this period, graves will be exhumed and the remains cremated or re-interred, depending on one's religious
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to the deceased's family and friends. Psychologists in some Western Judeo-Christian quarters, as well as the US funeral industry, claim that by interring a body away from plain view the pain of losing a loved one can be
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magazine, the perspective of the Roman Catholic Church is that anonymous burials reflect a dwindling belief in God. Others claim that this trend is mainly driven by secularism and the high costs of traditional burials.
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remain minimal and uncommon. This kind of natural burial is practiced in permitted oceans in the U.S., specifically in locations around Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Maryland, New Jersey, Texas and Virginia.
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Thus in some traditions, especially with an animistic logic, the remains of the dead are "banished" for fear their spirits would harm the living if too close; others keep remains close to help surviving generations.
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are required to be notified and a full investigation undertaken. Therefore, grave diggers in England and Wales are particularly careful to ensure that grave sites are dug with plenty of room for the coffin to pass.
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and other animals of emotional significance are often ceremonially buried. Most families bury deceased pets on their own properties, mainly in a yard, with a shoe box or any other type of container served as a
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In the United States, there is no nationwide regulation of burial depth. Each local authority is free to determine its own rules. Requirements for depth can vary according to soil type and by method of burial.
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was once believed to have been buried in such a manner, but today it is known that such burials were never allowed in Mozart's Vienna, whose magistrates refused to agree to the burial regulations decreed by
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Conservation burial is a type of burial where burial fees fund the acquisition and management of new land to benefit native habitat, ecosystems and species. This usually involves a legal document such as a
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therefore lost to time and abandoned; their grave markers having long since been pilfered by vandals or covered by forest growth. Their locations are occasionally discovered during construction projects.
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form a crude cross shape and this may have given rise to the belief that these spots were selected as the next best burying-places to consecrated ground. Another possible explanation is that the ancient
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In the United Kingdom, soil is required to be to a depth of three feet above the highest point of the coffin, unless the burial authority consider the soil to be suitable for a depth of only two feet.
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Crow, Madison; Zori, Colleen; Zori, Davide (17 December 2020). "Doctrinal and Physical Marginality in Christian Death: The Burial of Unbaptized Infants in Medieval Italy". Religions. 11 (12): 2.
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often employ mass burial for victims. However, mass burial may in many cases be the only practical means of dealing with an overwhelming number of human remains, such as those resulting from a
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the idea that the world would be "turned upside down" at the Apocalypse enjoyed some currency. There is at least one attested case of a person being buried upside down by instruction; a
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Respect for the physical remains. If left lying on top of the ground, scavengers may eat the corpse, considered disrespectful to the deceased in many (but not all) cultures. In Tibet,
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body is placed into the ground, sometimes with objects. This is usually accomplished by excavating a pit or trench, placing the deceased and objects in it, and covering it over. A
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in Israel. A variety of grave goods were present at the site, including the mandible of a wild boar in the arms of one of the skeletons. The remains of a 3-year-old child at
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known to practice burial behavior and to intentionally bury their dead; they did so using shallow graves furnished with stone tools and animal bones. Exemplary sites include
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are buried with the body, which may be dressed in fancy or ceremonial garb. Depending on the culture, the manner in which the body is positioned may have great significance.
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and is becoming increasingly common in other cultures as well. If a family member wishes, the ashes can now be turned into a gem, similar to creating synthetic diamonds.
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and other organisms from accessing the corpse. An additional benefit of using containers to hold the body is that if the soil covering the corpse is washed away by a
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Deceased individuals who were either not identified or misidentified at the time of burial may be reburied if survivors so wish. For example, when the remains of
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colored the dead body while others feed the body to vultures and birds or burned the bodies. Body parts cut during the procedure are sometimes buried separately.
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was fleas living on rats in the streets. In the event, there were so many victims that very few were buried in individual graves. Most were placed in massive
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and prevent them from witnessing the decomposition of their loved ones, and in many cultures it has been seen as a necessary step for the deceased to enter the
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Superstition also played a part in the selection of crossroads in the burial of suicides. Folk belief often held such individuals could rise as some form of
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services, the body is often put on display. Many cultures feel that the deceased should be presented looking his or her finest. Others dress the deceased in
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A decomposing body releases unpleasant gases related to decomposition. As such, burial is seen as a means of preventing smells from expanding into open air.
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spirits. The coffins were nailed shut once the body was inside, and carried by hand or wagon, depending on the property designated for slave burial site.
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Judaism does not generally allow multiple bodies in a grave. An exception to this is a grave in the military cemetery in Jerusalem, where there is a
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standing on their feet. The learnèd among them confess the absurdity of this doctrine; but the practice still continues, in compliance to the vulgar.
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Remains may be exhumed and reburied en masse when a cemetery is relocated, once local planning and religious requirements are met. It also enables
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buried their dead. Burial is often seen as indicating respect for the dead. It has been used to prevent the odor of decay, to give family members
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It is a common misconception that graves must be dug to a depth of six feet (1.8 metres). This is reflected in the common euphemism for death of
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Human burial practices are the manifestation of the human desire to demonstrate "respect for the dead". Cultures vary in their mode of respect.
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Royalty and high nobility often have one or more "traditional" sites of burial, generally monumental, often in a palatial chapel or cathedral.
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Apart from sanitary and other practical considerations, the site of burial can be determined by religious and socio-cultural considerations.
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capsule that will not harm the surrounding earth. The biodegradable capsule doubles as a seed which can be customized to grow into either a
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were usually buried in soil. The roots of burial as a practice reach back into the Middle Palaeolithic and coincide with the appearance of
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Cemeteries sometimes have a limited number of plots in which to bury the dead. Once all plots are full, older remains may be moved to an
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culture, graves are opened after a period of years. The bones are removed, cleaned, dried, and placed in a ceramic pot for reburial (in
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Alternatives to burial variously show respect for the dead, accelerate decomposition and disposal, or prolong display of the remains.
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places the body on a mountaintop, where it decomposes in the elements or is scavenged by carrion eaters, particularly vultures.
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or burial grounds. This is done in order to facilitate the return to Israel foretold of all those who are resurrected at the
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Burials may be placed in a number of different positions. Bodies with the arms crossed date back to ancient cultures such as
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with the master present to view all the ceremonial procedures. Slaves from nearby plantations were regularly in attendance.
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context. Laboratory rats had been observed using bedding material to bury dead conspecifics placed in their test chamber.
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Most often, a burial will be oriented to a specific direction for religious purposes, as are the case for persons of the
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Although not generally a motivation for the inclusion of grave goods with a corpse, it is worth considering that future
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sometimes developed complex burial rituals and attached great importance to their correct performance: the fate of the
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Religious rules may prescribe a specific zone, e.g. some Christian traditions hold that Christians must be buried in
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for the deceased. In general, however, clothing buried with a body decays more rapidly than the same buried alone.
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Klevnäs, Alison; Aspöck, Edeltraud; Noterman, Astrid A.; van Haperen, Martine C.; Zintl, Stephanie (August 2021).
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In folklore and mythology, exhumation has also been frequently associated with the performance of rites to banish
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Though there is ongoing debate regarding the reliability of the dating method, some scholars believe the earliest
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The passing of time may mean political situations change and a burial can take place in different circumstances.
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Simpson, Jacqueline (January–March 1978). "The World Upside down Shall Be: A Note on the Folklore of Doomsday".
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barrow or grave any time after its initial construction. It is often associated with the belief that there is a
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deliberately encourage scavenging of human remains in the interest of returning them to nature, just as within
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burial dates back 100,000 years. Archeological expeditions have discovered human skeletal remains stained with
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to expel the spirit of the deceased from their living quarters. A feast is held where mourners are covered in
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position, i.e., lying flat with arms and legs straight, or with the arms folded upon the chest, and with the
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Swift's notion of inverted burial might seem the highest flight of fancy, but it appears that among English
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constitutes a method of interment, rather than a form of medical treatment, remains under debate. See also
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Sometimes people are buried alive. Having no way of escaping interment, they die in place, typically by
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The inclusion of ceremonial garb and sacred objects is sometimes viewed as necessary for reaching the
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such as clothing and objects provide insight into how the individual lived. This provides a form of
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or other large body of water instead of soil. The body may be disposed in a coffin, or without one.
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you had to be interred correctly, for burial was the passage out of this world. The body had to be
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The funeral ways of social insects. Social strategies for corpse disposal". Trends in Entomology.
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in Croatia. Some scholars, however, argue that such "buried" bodies may have been disposed of for
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in London on 3 August 1916 and buried in the prison grounds but his body was exhumed and given a
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The earliest known reference to a requirement for a six-foot burial occurred in 1665 during the
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is one such mass grave, and it contains the remains of 130,000 soldiers from both sides of the
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were often seen as impure (as human remains are polluted, while the earth and fire are sacred).
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of a pit, laying of the body in a fetal position and intentional rapid covering of the corpse.
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cave in Kenya dating to 78,000 years ago also show signs suggestive of a burial, such as the
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One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the
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prescribe a particular way to live, which includes customs relating to disposal of the dead.
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Holloway, Margaret; Adamson, Susan; Argyrou, Vassos; Draper, Peter; Mariau, Daniel (2013).
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Remains may be exhumed for reinterment at a more appropriate location for various reasons.
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Naval ships sunk in combat are also considered mass graves by many countries. For example,
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with the legs folded up to the chest. Warriors in some ancient societies were buried in an
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Video depicting the exhumation of missing German soldiers killed in 1944 from a mass grave
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chalk drawings. After this, the eco-friendly reefs are placed into the ocean among other
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A School Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities: Abridged from the Larger Dictionary
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and royalty, from approximately 3500 B.C. are shown with crossed arms, such as the god
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agencies to clear the way for new constructions. One example of this is cemeteries in
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is the practice of burying multiple bodies in one location. Civilizations attempting
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In rare cases, a known person may be buried without identification, perhaps to avoid
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or some other natural process then the corpse will still not be exposed to open air.
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Simpson, Jacqueline (August 2005). "The Miller's tomb: facts, gossip, and legend ".
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is a method of freeze drying human remains before burial to increase the rate of
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is the practice of preserving a body against decay and is used in many cultures.
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Park, Chang-Won (2010). "Funerary transformations in contemporary South Korea".
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and assassins were buried upside down, as a post-mortem punishment and (as with
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Another method of natural burial is being developed to plant the human body in
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so it is unlikely that this event alone gave rise to the "six feet" tradition.
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In addition to burying human remains, many human cultures also regularly bury
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to climate. People may come to be buried alive in a number of different ways;
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in the 10th century BC, where the "X" symbolized their sky god. Later ancient
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of the deceased might depend on observing the proper ceremonial. For example:
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is the practice of removing the flesh from the corpse without interment. The
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is a more extensive method of embalming, further delaying the decay process.
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environment have been the backbone of the green burial movement. The use of
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groups that have wanted to preserve their burial grounds from disturbance.
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was the semi-ancient practice of publicly displaying remains of criminals.
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the corpse by hand to remove the flesh (also referred to as "defleshing").
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have the practice of cremating the remains and then eating the ashes with
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Secondary burial is a burial, cremation, or inhumation that is dug into a
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Pinel, John P. J.; Gorzalka, Boris B.; Ladak, Ferial (1 November 1981).
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special ground to bury the dead, and some families build private family
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Death and Dying in Central Appalachia: Changing Attitudes and Practices
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materials as well as trees and other flora are being used in place of
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is the practice of depositing the body or scattering its ashes in an
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are coffins placed on cliffs, found in various locations, including
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that accompanies the final disposition. Evidence suggests that some
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and academic institutions return remains to their place of origin.
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also constitute a form of mass grave. Some catacombs, for example
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may subsequently be useful to genealogists and family historians.
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inside an egg shaped pod. The pod containing the body will form a
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This article is about human burial practices. For other uses, see
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suggests, it may signify a "concern for the dead that transcends
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accelerates disposal through the process of alkaline hydrolysis.
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inscriptions engraved on headstones in the Japanese Cemetery in
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phase between the time that a person dies and finally decays.
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are labelled and defined by their burial customs, such as the
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In most jurisdictions, a legal exhumation usually requires a
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people once abandoned the bodies of the dead without burial.
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After death, a body will decay. Burial is not necessarily a
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Methods of burial may be heavily ritualized and can include
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Humans are not always the only species to bury their dead.
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and beyond met the Roman road heading west out of London.
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Most modern cultures mark the location of the body with a
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Frequently, cultures have different sets of exhumation
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policy declares such wrecks a mass grave (such as the
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Yarwood, Richard; Sidaway; Kelly; Stillwell (2014).
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"Corpse Couture". 3024:, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006, p. 131, 2755: 2753: 2746:. Brooklyn, NY: Brooklyn Museum. pp. 71–72. 2280:Reinterment refers to the reburial of a corpse. 834:. In the U.S., coffins are usually covered by a 447:in the expectation that it would be reborn into 4210:"36 CFR § 12.6 - Disinterments and exhumations" 3696:McGrath, Pam; Phillips, Emma (1 October 2008). 1787:who broke their vows were punished in this way. 1111: 456:grave, sprinkled with holy water and buried in 4240:Exhumation of the remains of a deceased person 1139:(d. 4 June 1800) lies thus upon the summit of 591:to indicate the burial place, is used in most 186:. Some human cultures may bury the remains of 4632: 4519:Metcalf, Peter; Huntington, Richard (1991) . 1779:when the person is entombed within walls. In 1092:) to inhibit the activities of the resulting 830:). A larger container may be used, such as a 339:. 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(2020). 3140: 3138: 3136: 3064: 3062: 3060: 1498:within the Monumento al Milite Ignoto 818:Bodies are often buried wrapped in a 7: 2619:. Findarticles.com. 15 December 2001 2259:forbids the exhumation of a corpse. 1882:, which stood on the spot where the 1278:adding citations to reliable sources 1246:Burial among African-American slaves 4262:"Accident victim's body is exhumed" 4086:"Kenya elephant buries its victims" 219:Ancient Egyptian funerary practices 123:(sometimes called "green burial"); 4994:List of ways people honor the dead 4128:"Why Dogs Dig and What You Can Do" 3484:"Concerning Indian Burial Customs" 3020:A. Lloyd Moote, Dorothy C. Moote, 2205:For ethical and cultural reasons, 2044:. In rare, historical cases (e.g. 1608:Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery 1376:Marking the location of the burial 598:Some burial practices are heavily 66:Unearthed grave from the medieval 25: 5025:Gompertz–Makeham law of mortality 4546:Roberts, Brian (10 August 2016). 4508:. 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The remains of the 2132:Nicholas II of Russia 2079:or permission by the 2001: 1923: 1831:Burial at cross-roads 1520:'s is located at the 1514:National War Memorial 1383: 1225: 1090:burial at cross-roads 929: 826:(or in some cases, a 796: 707:conservation easement 562:Homo neanderthalensis 501:Some reasons follow: 437: 316:in the Skhul cave at 239:Further information: 201: 65: 5854:Festival of the Dead 5752:Dying-and-rising god 5707:Chinese burial money 5596:Prohibition of dying 5548:Death-qualified jury 5314:Post-mortem interval 4974:Premature obituaries 4681:Coagulative necrosis 3471:(paper). p. 50. 3366:www.healthcouncil.nl 3075:Conservation Letters 2348:Funerary cannibalism 2054:posthumous execution 1690:USS Arizona Memorial 1468:Many countries have 1274:improve this article 642:Lord Mayor of London 421:, and South-eastern 43:Exhumation (geology) 5914:Philosophy of death 5779:Death from laughter 5079:Perinatal mortality 4820:Mitotic catastrophe 4800:Ischemic cell death 4743:Intrinsic apoptosis 4691:Gangrenous necrosis 3893:. 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Burial (disambiguation)
Entombment (disambiguation)
Exhumation (geology)
Inhume (band)
Internment
Sepultura

Poulton Chapel
final disposition
dead
funeral
ceremony
archaic
early modern humans
closure
afterlife
natural burial
embalming
mummification
shrouds
coffins
grave liners
burial vaults
grave goods
consecrate
cemeteries
headstones
mass graves
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