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What does cremation mean?

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Noun
  1. A burning; especially the act or practice of cremating the dead, burning a corpse.
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In the case of cremation, this may follow quite soon, with the ritual interring or scattering of the products of cremation.
I did suggest cremation and then the scattering of his ashes by means of a rocket firework.
During this testimony, we see scenes of a Hindu funeral procession in India, which ends at a cremation ghat.
The hotly contested question about cremation rites is not surprising, given their crucial status in the local religion.
Excavations revealed a sarsen stone cist containing a cremation burial accompanied by a bronze awl and a jet pendant.
The cremation graves at Vronda all have multiple burials within the same cist grave.

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