Four decades ago, less than 5 percent of American were cremated when they died. Now that figure stands at nearly half. This is how cremation actually works, and what happens to a culture when its attitude about how to memorialize the dead undergoes a rev
In human cremation, there are strict regulations in place to ensure that only one body is cremated at a time (unless special arrangements were made for family members who died together), and great care is taken to ensure each body is treated with respect. Most pet crematoriums do mass crem...
Hindus are cremated, because it's believed that burning releases the soul from the body, while Roman Catholics frown on cremation out of respect for the body as a symbol of human life [sources: Mims; Cassell et al]. Religion and culture will always be intertwined with death, and one ...
Tibetan Buddhists may opt for a sky burial, in which one's remains are left exposed to be consumed by vultures. Some people plan to be cremated when they die while others may find the thought of destroying their body by fire -- even after they're dead -- to be disturbing. Some ...
Well, turns out humans are pretty protective of their fundamental assumptions about the world. And they will try and try again to fit their experiences into their preexisting framework before stepping back and saying, "Okay, I need to adjust my understanding of this." ...
He stood there for a while, observing the scene, and tried to consider what a reasonable use of force could mean when applied to a shrew the length of a human thumb defending himself against a Tyrannosaurus Rex the length of six humans end to end, who had just eaten a Triceratops who ...
between two depots of food and ammunition laid down for their safety, one at the three dead menwere cremated without further examination upon being return... SA Andrée - 《Medlibrary Org》 被引量: 0发表: 0年 加载更多 研究点推荐 You Tell Us How We Are Doing It's Your ECHO ...
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So the fact that we could now keep our bodies refrigerated, slow down that decomposition, wait until the time would come that we needed them to be disposed of, buried or cremated, that was a real gift and a real shift. And I think that funeral directors are actually handling everything...
“People come to our museum because we as humans are fascinated with how we work ... it is our nature as human beings to be curious about that which is extraordinary,” says Anna Dhody, the curator of the museum and director of the Mütter Institute. ...