What's the difference between crematorium and morgue?

Crematorium


Definition:

  • (n.) Alt. of Crematory

Example Sentences:

  • (1) At the end of the ceremony, Havel's coffin was to be carried through the cathedral's Golden Gate to Strasnice crematorium for a private family funeral.
  • (2) He also made moronic statements like: "Books are central to the library experience" (to which I responded in a column: "This is like saying that death is central to the crematorium experience.").
  • (3) Lomax, a student who had never worked in a crematorium before, was one of those who volunteered to work at the crematorium.
  • (4) According to the Beijing News, the well-known Babaoshan crematorium will ban mourners from incinerating funeral clothes – a common sacrificial offering meant to keep the dead clothed in the afterlife – during the first two weeks of November.
  • (5) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Brian Lomax, 26, says he volunteered to work at the crematorium to serve his country Photograph: Wade Williams Liberia was the country hardest hit by the Ebola outbreak, which has now claimed over 8,500 lives .
  • (6) People flocked to a crematorium where a private cremation will be held for a final glimpse of the cortege.
  • (7) A cemetery design competition in Oslo, meanwhile, gave special mention to one student’s design for a cemetery skyscraper that would reach hundreds of metres into the sky and include spaces for coffins, urns, a crematorium and a computerised memorial wall.
  • (8) He was hounded out of his community by neighbours who feared his work at the Margibi crematorium in Boys Town, Lower Margibi county, was helping to spread the disease rather than contain it.
  • (9) I was stationed near crematorium number four, and we witnessed the columns of unsuspecting women and children entering the gate of the crematorium; they would have been dead within half an hour.
  • (10) Archives at the crematorium only record that Turing was 41 and that his occupation was "university reader".
  • (11) The closest crematorium is a few hours away, closer to the city, but a very long trip for mourners.
  • (12) To do it yourself, contact the cemeteries and crematorium department of your local authority.
  • (13) So as the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit (Apec) begins this week in the city, authorities have been scrambling to keep the air clean, temporarily restricting the operation of cars, factories, construction sites — and even crematoriums.
  • (14) The funeral is at 11.30am on Thursday at Mortlake Crematorium, Surrey.
  • (15) He called for the government “to secure and preserve the now-defunct crematorium for use as a shrine in memory of our fallen compatriots.
  • (16) Golders Green crematorium has seen it all in the century or so since it opened.
  • (17) The wicker coffin, draped in the flags of Great Britain and Brazil and an Arsenal scarf, and accompanied by an escort of Hell's Angels and the London Dixieland jazz band playing Just a Closer Walk with Thee, arrived at Golders Green crematorium in the midst of rain and storm.
  • (18) Then journalists, investigators, prosecutors, researchers, historians, theorists, documentary film-makers and generations of others took their turn, trying to find an appropriate response to the testimony of the survivors and the evidence of gas chambers, crematoriums, barracks for slaves, medical experiments and mass graves.
  • (19) Friends of Steenkamp, a law graduate and model, walked up a path to the crematorium, some holding hands or carrying flowers.
  • (20) They started training us on the method to carry out the cremation.” The process of cremation burns corpses, but the bones then have to be ground to a powder afterwards – a stage that was neglected in the Margibi crematorium.

Morgue


Definition:

  • (n.) A place where the bodies of persons found dead are exposed, that they may be identified, or claimed by their friends; a deadhouse.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Two had died before they were rescued, and their bodies lay a few steps down the hall in the hospital chapel, now a makeshift morgue.
  • (2) Hospital records showed 48 bodies and many body parts were brought to the morgue.
  • (3) By the end of the day there were 29 bodies in the hospital morgue.
  • (4) This results in a better acceptance on behalf of the donor families, France-Transplant harvesting team and morgue staff members.
  • (5) I then left the scene and went to a nearby hospital, the Coptic hospital, where we were told that most of the bodies of those killed had been sent, and we were given access to the morgue of the hospital and we counted 17 bodies.
  • (6) The Pavlovic family, unaware of her fate and assisted by the Serbian embassy, spent three days traipsing from hospitals to morgues searching for her, reporting back to Aca as he recovered from his own surgeries at l’hôpital de Kremlin‑Bicêtre.
  • (7) "God willing we will get our revenge," screamed a shaking Naget Mostafa on Sunday evening, as the corpse of her dead brother, Abdallah, was carried out of the Zeinhom morgue.
  • (8) frequency of cysticercosis in Peru's hospitals is 1.15%, while in the morgue, which represents approximately what happens in general population in 0.15%.
  • (9) Sometimes the family has had previous unhappy experiences with this procedure, and certainly many clinicians have been repelled by sights, sounds, and behaviors they have observed in morgues.
  • (10) At least eight bodies have arrived at a morgue in Cairo bearing signs of torture, the human rights group said.
  • (11) Corpses were piled on pickup trucks and delivered to the general hospital in Port-au-Prince, where the hospital director, Guy LaRoche, estimated there were 1,500 bodies piled outside the morgue.
  • (12) We took her to a house where they treated the injured but, before reaching the house, she already died.” Other witnesses described raids on two buildings inside the residential compound of the IMN’s leader, Ibraheem Zakzaky, saying soldiers targeted a makeshift clinic and morgue there.
  • (13) The commission criticised the autopsies performed by the attorney general’s office as being sloppy and incomplete and said the morgue turned over the wrong body to one family.
  • (14) The agency said weeks of bombings and street battles have also left hospitals damaged and without water, morgues inundated with bodies, and ambulances unable to reach casualties because of a lack of fuel.
  • (15) Although Poe is most celebrated for stories such as The Tell-Tale Heart and The Murders in the Rue Morgue, his only novel, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket , stands as a classic adventure story with disturbing supernatural elements that has fascinated and influenced many subsequent writers.
  • (16) Morgue officials in Port Said said most of the dead had been killed by blows, falls or as a result of being crushed.
  • (17) Under Morsi, just as under the military, all efforts to defend, treat or trace people, to identify bodies in the morgue, to empower searching parents have been undertaken by young people.
  • (18) At one point in 2011 Lohan was ordered to do a series of 12-hour shifts of community work in the LA county morgue .
  • (19) Separate areas are needed for persons with minor injuries, relatives and friends, the press, and a morgue.
  • (20) His cousin, Alaa, was in tears after a fruitless search through hospital morgues in Port Said, which were holding more than 50 bodies.

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