Tears rolling down his face, Bachchan Singh Bahadur poured cups of melted butter on the wood fire of his father's funeral pyre on the outskirts of New Delhi. He was in keeping with a centuries-old ...
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Earliest known cremation in Africa found near Mount Hora — a 9,500-year-old pyre that predates all others
At the base of a granite hill in northern Malawi, beneath a rock overhang that has sheltered people for millennia, ...
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Jewish law is unequivocal: the dead must be buried in the earth, and cremation is not permitted.
A letter in SN on 2/10/2021 titled: “There is a collective indifference to the chronic degradation of Le Repentir Cemetery” ended with the following rhetoric: “Why don’t they burn away the place with ...
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