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Cremation is also right out, due to the risk of carcinogenic gases and the high carbon content of the Prince of Pop's skin.
Greenpeace: Jackson Death 'A Tragedy' Dungeekin 2009
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Cremation is also right out, due to the risk of carcinogenic gases and the high carbon content of the Prince of Pop's skin.
Archive 2009-06-01 Dungeekin 2009
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Cremation is not an option as the carbon emissions involved are just unacceptable to me and even conventional burial leaves a fairly large carbon 'footprint'.
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Cremation is sharply on the increase there, and in 90 percent of cases the ashes do not wind up in an elaborate urn housed in a niche in some columbarium, but are scattered over the countryside or in a garden.
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Cremation is sharply on the increase there, and in 90 percent of cases the ashes do not wind up in an elaborate urn housed in a niche in some columbarium, but are scattered over the countryside or in a garden.
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Cremation is sharply on the increase there, and in 90 percent of cases the ashes do not wind up in an elaborate urn housed in a niche in some columbarium, but are scattered over the countryside or in a garden.
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In a seven-step process, a company called Cremation Solutions will turn a few ounces of cremains into a diamond; depending on color and carat size, the cost runs anywhere from $2,500 to $25,000.
NYT > Home Page By SUSAN SELIGER 2012
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'' 'Cremation' '' is the [[burning]] to ashes of a person's body after death, rather than burying the body or otherwise honoring it.
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(word did not even originate until 1874) '' 'Cremation' '' is the [[burning]] to ashes of a person's body after death, rather than burying the body or otherwise honoring it.
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Cremation rates rose to 37% in 2009 from less than 15% in 1985, according to the Cremation Association of North America, a trade group.
Even in Death, Budget Cuts Take a Toll Kate Linebaugh 2011
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