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  2. 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.

  3. Burial - Wikipedia

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    Exhumation of those killed in Bucha massacre in March 2022. Exhumation, or disinterment, 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.

  4. 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.

  5. Body snatching - Wikipedia

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    Body snatchers at work. A painting on the wall of a public house in Penicuik, Scotland. Body snatching is the illicit removal of corpses from graves, morgues, and other burial sites. Body snatching is distinct from the act of grave robbery as grave robbing does not explicitly involve the removal of the corpse, but rather theft from the burial ...

  6. Disposal of human corpses - Wikipedia

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    The disposal of human corpses, also called final disposition, is the practice and process of dealing with the remains of a deceased human being.Disposal methods may need to account for the fact that soft tissue will decompose relatively rapidly, while the skeleton will remain intact for thousands of years under certain conditions.

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  8. TBI agents exhume body of Pauline Pusser, wife of famous ...

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    Authorities exhumed the body of Pauline Pusser, the wife of hard-charging McNairy County Sheriff Buford Pusser, 56 years after she was shot to death in an ambush presumably meant to kill her husband.

  9. ‘Remarkable preserved condition.’ Nun’s exhumed body draws ...

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    It said the body was exhumed on April 28. “Not only was her body in a remarkable preserved condition, her crown and bouquet of flowers were dried in place; the profession candle with the ribbon ...