(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.
Mortuary
Definition:
(a.) A sort of ecclesiastical heriot, a customary gift claimed by, and due to, the minister of a parish on the death of a parishioner. It seems to have been originally a voluntary bequest or donation, intended to make amends for any failure in the payment of tithes of which the deceased had been guilty.
(a.) A burial place; a place for the dead.
(a.) A place for the reception of the dead before burial; a deadhouse; a morgue.
(a.) Of or pertaining to the dead; as, mortuary monuments.
Example Sentences:
(1) Jimmy Savile told hospital staff he interfered with patients' corpses, taking grotesque photographs and stealing glass eyes for jewellery, over two decades at the mortuary of Leeds general infirmary.
(2) At this point in time our family is heartbroken, not able to grieve; his body is still in the mortuary all alone.
(3) By late morning, dozens more bloodied corpses had been brought to the town's tiny mortuary, where they lay three to four deep, some burned beyond recognition.
(4) In another trial, 1% 'Virkon' solution proved very effective in decontaminating mortuary tables.
(5) Standing in the forecourt of Cairo's Zeinhom mortuary, waiting to pick up the corpse of his friend, Amr Hussein could scarcely believe he was there.
(6) Maltese citizens were urged to send bouquets of flowers for the victims to the mortuary of Mater Dei hospital by the hospital’s chief executive, Ivan Falzon.
(7) The body was transferred to St Pancras mortuary, where the resident pathologist was Freddy Patel.
(8) The bodies of the three men were collected from the mortuary on Wednesday and taken to the Handsworth Islamic Centre.
(9) The records of 248 female homicides and suicides admitted to the Salt River State Mortuary between January 1990 and July 1991 were reviewed with specific attention to mode of death and blood alcohol concentration (BAC).
(10) Recommendations included improved privacy for families and friends; more sensitive body viewing, mortuary, autopsy and funeral arrangements; and better in-service education for staff and information giving for families.
(11) Occupational exposure was the probable cause of six hepatitis B infections (affecting haematology, biochemistry, and microbiology staff), three of tuberculosis (affecting mortuary and morbid anatomy workers), seven shigella, three salmonella (including one typhoid) and one pseudocholera infection (all in microbiology medical laboratory scientific officers), and a streptococcal infection in a mortuary technician.
(12) Postmortem examinations were carried out by two pathologists working at hospital and public mortuaries in west London.
(13) Amnesty researchers also witnessed emaciated corpses in mortuaries, and one former Giwa detainee told the organisation that around 300 people in his cell died after being denied water for two days: “Sometimes we drank people’s urine, but even the urine you at times could not get.” The conditions for prisoners in Giwa barracks and detention centres in Damaturu were allegedly so overcrowded that hundreds of detainees were packed into small cells where they had to take turns sleeping or even sitting on the floor.
(14) For the moment, though, Isis militants are killing about five or six people a day, the governor said, citing sources inside the city's mortuary.
(15) Brown adipose tissue was investigated in two cases of cot death in which core temperatures were above 40 degrees C on arrival at the mortuary.
(16) The mortuary table population could be a relation for vital potentials.
(17) This discovery constitutes the earliest solid evidence for intentional defleshing of a human ancestor and offers new research avenues for the investigation of early hominid mortuary practices.
(18) At the conclusion of mortuary ceremonies, the two sectors engage in competitive feasts in which the successful control of fertility is symbolized by the presentation of finished products of male vitality: yams and children, especially boys.
(19) The organisation also obtained evidence that in 2013, more than 4,700 bodies were brought to a mortuary from a detention facility in Giwa barracks.
(20) Their quality can surely be gauged by being the only people in the country who had not heard that Savile dated mortuary corpses, kerb-crawled in a camper van and was an enthusiastic nick-sniffer.