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  2. Burial Act 1857 - Wikipedia

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    The Act made it illegal to disturb a grave (other than for an officially sanctioned exhumation). The Act did not make it illegal to steal a dead body, and it is only the opening of the grave which constitutes an offence, not the removal of the contents.

  3. Grave robbery - Wikipedia

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    The buyers (museum curators, historians, etc.) didn't often suffer the repercussions of being in possession of stolen goods; the blame (and charges) were placed upon the lower-class grave robbers. Today's antiquities trade has become a streamlined industry, the speed at which these artifacts enter the market has grown exponentially. Laws to ...

  4. Grave desecration - Wikipedia

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    Illegal body snatching from graves provided cadavers for sale to medical schools for dissection during anatomy demonstrations. Because of the taboo and theft of corpses the dissection of corpses was often carried out in secret. [5] Body snatching was practiced by resurrectionists in the United Kingdom until the Anatomy Act 1832.

  5. Can you scatter ashes anywhere in Kentucky? What state law ...

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    Here’s what state law says about disposing of cremated remains in Kentucky. Where can you scatter cremated remains in Kentucky? State law lays out requirements for where someone can dispose of ...

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  7. Burial - Wikipedia

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    Graves are free if the owner is poor, some ancient people ancient Iranians burial colored the dead body while others feed the body to vultures and birds or burned the bodies. [39] [40] [41] Body parts cut during the procedure are sometimes buried separately. [42] Zoroastrian Towers of Silence outside Yazd, Yazd province, Iran

  8. Body believed to be Kentucky highway shooter Joseph Couch ...

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    A body believed to be the remains of the madman who shot and wounded five motorists on a Kentucky highway earlier this month was found Wednesday by a “bounty-hunting” couple during a YouTube ...

  9. Water cremation - Wikipedia

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    An alkaline hydrolysis disposal system at the Biosecurity Research Institute inside of Pat Roberts Hall at Kansas State University. Alkaline hydrolysis (also called biocremation, resomation, [1] [2] flameless cremation, [3] aquamation [4] or water cremation [5]) is a process for the disposal of human and pet remains using lye and heat; it is alternative to burial, cremation, or sky burial.