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Cremation, the disposal of a dead body by burning instead of by burial. This is not illegal, unless it be done so as to cause a nuisance, or with the intention of preventing a coroner's inquest, Rg. V. Price, (1884) 12 QBD 247. But it is the duty of executors to bury the body of their testator, although the will may direct some other person to cause it to be burnt, Williams v. Williams, (1882) 20 Ch D 659. If burial in consecrated ground and cremation are both desired, cremation should precede and not follow burial, and the Burial Service maybe read in connection with the burial of the ashes; see Re Dixon, 1892 p. 394, where an applicationto exhume, after 18 years' burial, for the purpose of cremation, was refused. The (English) Cremation Act, 1902 (3 Edw. 7, c. 8), empowers burial authorities (see BURIAL) to establish crematoria on plans approved by the Minister of Health and certified to be in accordance therewith by the Secretary of State, but no crematorium may be nearer than 200 y...
Cremate
To burn to reduce to ashes by the action of fire either directly or in an oven or retort to incremate or incinerate as to cremate a corpse instead of burying it...
Cremation
A burning esp the act or practice of cremating the dead...
Cremator
One who or that which cremates or consumes to ashes...
Coroner
Coroner. A very ancient officer at the Common Law, so called because he has principally to do with pleas of the Crown, appointed in boroughs by the Borough Council under ss. 171-174 of the (English) Municipal Corporations Act, 1882, and in counties by the County Council, under s. 5 of the (English) Local Government Act, 1888, prior to which Act county coroners were elected by the freeholders in each county.An early definition of his duties was provided by the statute 'De Officio Coronatoris,' 4 Edw. 1, repealed by the consolidating (English) Coroners Act, 1887, which codifies the law as follows:--Where a coroner is informed that the dead body of a person is lying within his jurisdiction, and there is reasonable cause to suspect that such person has died either a violent or an unnatural death, or has died a sudden death of which the cause is unknown, or that such person has dies in prison, or in such place or under such circumstances as to require an inquest in pursuance of any Act, the...
Cremationist
One who advocates the practice of cremation...
Crematorium
A furnace for cremating corpses a building containing such a furnace...
Crematory
Pertaining to or employed in cremation...
funeral home
An establishment usually commercial where the bodies of dead persons are prepared for viewing before burial or cremation called also funeral parlor mortuary funeral chapel and informally undertakers The body may or may not be preserved by embalming before viewing or burial and in some cases the body is not exposed for viewing though present in a casket Often some form of memorial service is held for the deceased at the funeral home where friends and relatives may come to pay their respects to the dead and express condolence to the family The work of preparation of the body and many other arrangements related to the funeral and burial are carried out by an undertaker or mortician who manages the funeral home...
Incineration
The act of incinerating or the state of being incinerated cremation...
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