Act of burning a corpse over a fire or incinerating it in a contained heating area into ashes.
Cremation is the process whereby the body is incinerated by intense heat and flame. The body and its container (e.g. a casket) are vaporized with the exception of any non-combustible materials. Cremation usually takes about three hours. The cremated remains are placed into a dignified container and then either buried or placed in columbarium. The Catholic Cemeteries of the Diocese of Hamilton opened the Holy Cross Catholic Cremation Centre in Brant County in November, 2003.
The act of incinerating a corpse.
One method used to prepare a body for final disposition. Cremation reduces the body to skeletal fragments and ashes through intense heat and evaporation.
cremation: the act of burning the remains of the physical body after death has occurred, which hastens the release of the subtle vehicles from the etheric body and prevents the poisoning of the Earth.
the incineration of a dead body
burials that are made from the remains of burned human bones
Reduction of the body to cremated remains by fire or intense heat.
A regulated process using intense heat in a chamber to burn human remains. It typically takes 2 to 4 hours.
The process of using heat to reduce a corpse to bone fragments.
Burning of the dead, before burial or disposal. Ashes often placed in urns
The act of burning the dead before disposal. The ashes are then scattered or buried, often in an urn. This type of burial rite becomes common in the Bronze Age and was also used in the Roman and Anglo-Saxon periods.
(2) -- the reduction of a corpse to ashes as a way of disposing of it (Oxford Dict.)
the process of burning a dead body, the ashes are often collected in an urn (a jar-like container)
This is the funerary act of burning the dead. The remains of a cremated person are also called a cremation.
Disposal of the dead by burning; a feature consisting of ash and small pieces of burned human bones and teeth.
Reduction of the body to ashes by fire.
The process of reducing the body to small bone fragments and ash by means of extreme heat.
the technical heating process that reduces human remains to bone fragments, which occurs through heat and evaporation.
A process which reduces the body by heat to small bone frag ments. When the fragments are pulverized, they are reduced to the consistency of coarse sand or crushed seashells.
Exposing remains and the container encasing them to extreme heat and flame and processing the resulting bone fragments to a uniform size and consistency.
Cremation reduces the body through intense heat to ashes. After cremation, the cremated body can be buried, entombed, scattered or retained by the family.
Cremation is the practice of disposing of a human corpse by burning which often takes place in a crematorium or crematory. Along with burial, cremation is an increasingly popular alternative for the final disposition of the dead.
