cremation
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Human Composting Is Changing the Landscape of Death Care — and It May Soon Be Legal Near You
When Howard Fischer eventually dies, he is going to be composted in Seattle. He’ll be wrapped in cloth, placed on a bed of wood chips, and then his family will cover him in alfalfa and flowers. After a ceremony, his body will go into a hexagonal vessel with an internal structure similar to that of…
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Bronze Age Italians Never Cleaned Up Their Family Funeral Pyre
A team of anthropologists studying Salorno, a stretch of scorched earth in northern Italy, say the site is a Late Bronze Age cremation platform where the remains of at least 172 individuals may have been burned. What’s more, the researchers believe the remains were simply left on the ground for the last 3,000 years.
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The Man Who Invented The Pringles Can Was Buried Inside A Pringles Can
Pringles varieties are as vast and varied as the stars in the sky: Barbecue. Sour Cream & Onion. Buffalo Ranch. Extreme Blazin’ Buffalo Ranch. But one, single Pringles can exists on this Earth with a peculiar sort of flavour dust and no chips at all — the Pringles can that holds the ashes of its…
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What Happens To Medical Implants When Their Owners Are Cremated
Medical advances mean that many us aren’t just made up of bone and flesh these days: artificial knees, titanium plates and pacemakers make their way into human bodies across the world every day. But what happens to them when their owners are cremated?