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Columbarium
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Columbarium
A structure of vaults lined with recesses which provide a permanent resting place for urns containing the ashes of human or sometimes animals, i.e., pets
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The origins of such options all pointed to the interwar years--with both a decline in building columbaria (rooms housing crematory urns) and the rising preference for scattering ashes.
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How else to explain the growing trend, which recently arrived in Arkansas, of building columbaria on college campuses to receive the ashen remains of alumni?
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