Phil Robertson

Basically, I don't ever move too far past the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus, because it's of first importance. And I make sure it's of first importance with anyone I'm talking to. It all comes down to that, really, when you get right down to it. So it's not complex. Jesus removed our sins and guarantees we can be raised from the dead.

American Celebrity

Carmen Dell'Orefice

I don't believe in funerals. I believe in celebrating life, and showing people, while they're alive, how much I care about them. And I don't believe in this business of burial. I'm an organ donor. Whether its my skin or my eyeballs, use whatever bits are intact and put the rest in the garbage.

American Model

Natasia Demetriou

My parent's house, to be honest, is like a snail's disco. It's a fine house but my parents are very eccentric. Also that house might be built on an Ancient Egyptian burial ground or something, because the plague of insects that hit that house as we were growing up.

English Comedian

Tony Hillerman

I always have one or two, sometimes more, Navajo or other tribes' cultural elements in mind when I start a plot. In Thief of Time, I wanted to make readers aware of Navajo attitude toward the dead, respect for burial sites.

American Author

Jon Porter

As a member of Congress, and a parent, I understand the importance of ensuring that families are able to provide a meaningful and proper burial for their loved ones.

American Politician

Harold Brodkey

It is death that goes down to the center of the earth, the great burial church the earth is, and then to the curved ends of the universe, as light is said to do.

Brian Eno

I do like Burial; he's so curiously clumsy, you can't help but be moved. It's so un-Hollywood, and the rhythms are so un-danceable.

British Musician

Ayman Odeh

A man who dies, no matter how terrible his crime was, must be brought to burial.

Israeli Politician

Caitlin Doughty

I want a natural burial. Just straight into the ground in a shroud.

American Activist

Christopher Marlowe

All places are alike, and every earth is fit for burial.

English Dramatist

Burial customs vary globally. Learn about local traditions to avoid offending when talking about burials.

Cultural Sensitivity

'Burial' doesn't always mean underground; it can refer to entombment in structures like mausoleums.

Not Just Underground

Sometimes 'burial' is used metaphorically to mean the end or hiding of something.

Figurative Usage

In geology, 'burial' is technical, focusing on natural processes, not human activity.

Technical Term

Geological burial happens over thousands or millions of years, unlike human burials.

Time Scale

Burial in geology often leads to layering. Older layers get buried deeper over time.

Layers Matter

 they're all of the hospitals and hospices and mortuaries and cemeteries in the city. In fact, the majority are cemeteries. We wanted to show that, even though death and burial are things that we might not think about, they're all around us, and they're important parts of our cities.

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 remains you know you can you know be with with the green burial concept where you're returning your body to earth to nourish the earth you can be put into a mushroom suit where the fungus of the mushroom will actually help to expedite the decomposition of the human body you

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 in the entire place was so the really richest people. Consider that right, two hundred and eighty two thousand people are buried in this cemetery and these are all the most expensive burials. So there are some really important people from history in here.

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 Skull and Bones fills the inner circle but the outer circle contains a different pattern ceramic pots on top of Jawbone's the pots may have held offerings for the afterlife this explanation of multiple burials for the dead goes against what

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 that might help with the space issue? In some countries, skyscraper cemeteries enable vertical burials. Some options focus on the body's relationship with the environment. Promession, for example, freeze-dries and pulverizes the body,

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 And so, they buried the old woman together, to ensure her safe passage into the spirit world. The burial was complete, but the taboo of death weighed heavily on the scholar. How could he have been so foolish,

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 is a capacity even more important than their sense of empathy, altruism, and justice. Elephants are the only non-human animals to mourn their dead, performing burial rituals and returning to visit graves.

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 Columbia banished him forever Venezuela would not allow him to come home the doctor who prepared his bit his body for burial had to borrow a shirt for his corpse few heroes in history have been dealt so

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 purses fly powered by wing of bat and tongue of pig witches bind hexes and black ribbon ready for burial and a human braid curses like these are all too familiar to doctor zabaleta as part

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 toward graves designed to honor the dead, and burial became more common. Sometimes, these graves contained practical or ritual objects, suggesting belief in an afterlife