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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

  • 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

  • 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'.

    Green Burial: When Dust Really Returns to Dust 2007

  • 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.

    The Undertaker's Racket 1969

  • 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.

    The Undertaker's Racket 1963

  • 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.

    The Undertaker's Racket 1963

  • 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

  • '' 'Cremation' '' is the [[burning]] to ashes of a person's body after death, rather than burying the body or otherwise honoring it.

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] 2009

  • (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.

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] 2009

  • 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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