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    Cremation Cremation offers an affordable alternative to traditional funerary services. Cremation costs much less than a traditional funeral service and burial. For example‚ a traditional funeral and burial service can cost in excess of $7‚000 at a minimum‚ while many crematoriums offer cremation and a container for the ashes for around $1‚200 (Hutchins 18A). In light of changing social values with respect to funeral services‚ cremation also offers a modern alternative to long‚ drawn-out burial

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    There are strange things done in the midnight sun       By the men who moil for gold; The Arctic trails have their secret tales       That would make your blood run cold; The Northern Lights have seen queer sights‚       But the queerest they ever did see Was that night on the marge of Lake Lebarge       I cremated Sam McGee. Now Sam McGee was from Tennessee‚ where the cotton blooms and blows. Why he left his home in the South to roam ’round the Pole‚ God only knows. He was always cold

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    INTRODUCTION Cremation has been constantly gaining acceptance here in the Philippines especially in areas where there are crematoriums such as Manila‚ Quezon City‚ Paranaque‚ and other leading cities in the Philippines. Although inhumation or traditional burial is still largely practiced in the Philippines‚ many Filipinos are now welcoming the cremation for variety of reasons such as‚ practicality and affordability‚ simple‚ cleanest process and speeds up natural process. The demands for cremations is now

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    characters‚ the situations they face‚ and the things that they do. Then explain how they are similar in terms of traits and in the way readers feel about them. Write at least ten sentences Answer: Amongst the limerick poem of “The Listeners” and “The Cremation of Sam McGee‚” there are astounding characters that depict unusual traits which make them unique. Like the traveler who vowed to keep a promise‚ he was perceptively aware of the spooky tower which encompassed all round him. Though he showed no fear

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    Three Things You Should Consider Doing If You Want Cremation Services If you want to be cremated instead of buried‚ there are certain steps you should take to insure that this happens. Although cremation is becoming more popular‚ many of your loved ones may assume you want to be buried‚ and some of your loved ones may be opposed to cremation on religious grounds‚ so they may not honor your request after you die. However‚ if you want to insure that you are cremated‚ you should consider doing the

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    CREMATION Cremation offers an affordable alternative to traditional funerary services. Cremation costs much less than a traditional funeral service and burial. For example‚ a traditional funeral and burial service can cost in excess of $7‚000 at a minimum‚ while many crematoriums offer cremation and a container for the ashes for around $1‚200. In light of changing social values with respect to funeral services‚ cremation also offers a modern alternative to long‚ drawn out burial services that

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    performs the rituals of”Homa” which is making afire and chanting mantras and doing offering to the “Agni Dewata” or fire god. The family gather together to cremate the body. Cremation is a ritual designed to do much more than dispose of the body; it is intended to release the soul from its earthly existence. "Hindus believe that cremation (compared to burial or outside disintegration) is most spiritually beneficial to the departed soul." This is based on the belief that the "astral

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    Virgils Aeneid's Funeral

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    As for those in the modern world‚ a funeral is seen as something everyone deserves‚ and a transition from the different states of living and death. It was overtly important to conduct the right ceremonies‚ practices‚ and burials‚ for the people of Rome so they would avoid anything malicious in the afterlife. Ancient sources provide ideas and accounts of funerals that took place‚ which vary from rich to poor. Funerals could be very expensive‚ much like today‚ so in the event of the death of the poor

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    In the Scandinavian culture from the Bronze Age to the Viking Age‚ people of the old heathen beliefs performed various forms of burial customs; these include passage graves‚ cremation burials with or without cremation remains of the pyre‚ inhumations in pits with or without coffins or in wooden chambers and boat burials. But after the conversion to Christianity (from the end of the 10th century onward)‚ these varying burial customs disappeared and got unified into inhumations in consecrated grounds

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    cement vault or cremation.) One alternative mentioned is resomation. Anderson-McQueen funeral home in St. Petersburg‚ Florida is currently the only place in the U.S. that offers this service. This option allows a patron to have their tissues dissolved as an alternative to traditional cremation. The process is called resomation or “bio-cremation” and uses heated water and potassium hydroxide to liquefy the body‚ leaving only bones behind. The bones are then pulverized much like cremation and the bone

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