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cremation
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cremation
disposal of a cadaver by total burning.


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Often people are interested in keeping some of those remains, but the beauty of these pieces is they can sit on a mantle, dining room or coffee table and no one needs to know it's housing the cremains of a loved one.
``There used to be more than 1,600,'' cremains in a year, said Craig Harvey, spokesman for the Department of Coroners.
Six Feet Under has been praised as an unabashed portrait of the "death industry," covering the rituals of embalming and the benefits of cremains.
 
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