Mom wants urns stolen from her home back
WNEM Saginaw
Their remains were cremated and Gooch kept them in urns in her home. "It's really helped me with my grieving process," Gooch said. But when a late-winter heat wave took place last month, Gooch left a front window open. That's when thieves swooped in, ...

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Thailand Princess Bejaratana Rajasuda Sirisobhabannavadi's Royal Funeral (PHOTOS)
Huffington Post
The princess died in July 2011 of septicaemia and was cremated in Bangkok on April 9, 2012. During the royal ceremony, Thai soldiers in traditional dress pulled the royal chariot carrying the princess' urn in a procession through the streets of the ...
Farewell to a princessBangkok Post

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Thousands pay last respects to beloved royal
Bangkok Post
PALACE PHOTO The late princess, who passed away at the age of 85 on July 27, 2011, was cremated at Sanam Luang after a day of ceremony including three processions joined by HRH Crown Prince Maha Vajiralongkorn and HRH Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn.
Lightningbolts strikes Bangkok as Bejaratana funeral ceremony beginsDemotix

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Veterans Cemetery Adds Mausoleum For Cremated Remains
KMGH Denver
DENVER -- Fort Logan National Cemetery is formally opening mausoleums for urns bearing the cremated remains of veterans. The first mausoleum or columbaria was finished in December. It has 5333 niches to hold urns. The above-ground installations are the ...

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Pound fails undercover test of cremation services
CTV.ca
Investigators filled toy cats with raw hamburger meat and submitted them for private cremations to test the ethics of the industry. Because the toys contain no bone material, any bone samples contained in the returned urn would constitute a fraud, ...

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Buying affordable cemetery plots
Canton Repository
Part of the reason for the switch to cremation is cost savings. At many cemeteries, families may bury two cremation urns or remains in one grave or bury cremated remains above a traditional vault (casket). We did find a sale for grave sites.

Mystery of 87-Year-Old Oregon Urn Solved?
ABC News (blog)
“I was thinking someone went out to scatter cremated remains and didn't have the common sense to take them out of the urn first.” “When he showed up with an urn that was 87 years old and looked like it had been to hell and back, I can't even tell you ...
The mystery of a 90-year-old urn filled with ashes found washed up on a beach ...Daily Mail

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Families need to separate truth and myth when it comes to cremation
Midland Reporter-Telegram
Mom had set up a simple cremation plan and “didn't want a fuss” made over her. They followed her wishes and had her cremated without a service. Now, her kids and grandkids were having trouble letting go. “I think we need to have a memorial,” said the ...

Cremated remains found on beach in West Haven
New Haven Register
By Susan Misur, Register Staff WEST HAVEN — A bag of cremated human remains was found at the Oak Street Beach Wednesday and will be returned to a family member who last month tossed the bag into the water from a nearby pier, police said Thursday.

Louisa Pearson: In Tibet, leaving your body as an offering to birds of prey ...
Scotsman
Mummification (www.summum.org) is on offer for people and pets, while donating your body to science is an option – though it will most likely get cremated once the students have finished with you. Sky burial appeals, but all those air miles getting me ...