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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. 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. Grave robbery - Wikipedia

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    [n 1] A related act is body snatching, a term denoting the contested or unlawful taking of a body (usually from a grave), which can be extended to the unlawful taking of organs alone. Hole that was dug by looters in Chan Chan, Peru. Grave robbing has caused great difficulty to the studies of archaeology, art history, and history.

  5. 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.

  6. Ohio judge blocks law requiring fetal remains be buried or ...

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    An Ohio law requiring fetal remains to be buried or cremated is unconstitutional under the state's abortion rights amendment, a judge ruled Thursday. Hamilton County Common Pleas Judge Alison ...

  7. Carlisle buried baby case - Wikipedia

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    Richardson is from Carlisle, Ohio, where she attended high school and was a varsity cheerleader. She is the daughter of Kim and Scott Richardson, and has a younger brother. [5] [6] She developed anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa as a 12-year-old and was diagnosed with body dysmorphia. She has post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and ...

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  9. 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 ...