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  2. Cremation - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  3. Health risks from dead bodies - Wikipedia

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    The health risks of dead bodies are dangers related to the improper preparation and disposal of cadavers.While normal circumstances allow cadavers to be quickly embalmed, cremated, or buried; natural and man-made disasters can quickly overwhelm and/or interrupt the established protocols for dealing with the dead.

  4. 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.

  5. List of mortuary customs - Wikipedia

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    Cremation is a method of final disposition of a dead body through burning. [8] Cryonics low-temperature freezing (usually at −196 °C or −320.8 °F or 77.1 K) and storage of a human corpse or severed head, with the speculative hope that resurrection may be possible in the future. [9]

  6. Corpse decomposition - Wikipedia

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    A fresh pig carcass. At this stage the remains are usually intact and free of insects. The corpse progresses through algor mortis (a reduction in body temperature until ambient temperature is reached), rigor mortis (the temporary stiffening of the limbs due to chemical changes in the muscles), and livor mortis (pooling of the blood on the side of the body that is closest to the ground).

  7. Burial - Wikipedia

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    The bones are then 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. [27]

  8. Why did no one help her? Fatal subway burning exposes New ...

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    We’d live in that tragedy and feel it sink into our bones. We felt like we knew the victims and their families as we learned all about dreams they once had. The suspect Sebastian Zapeta-Calil ...

  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.