What is "cremations"

Usage examples of "cremations".

In most towns cremations accounted for perhaps one in four or one in five dispositions of cadavers.

On the positive side, I suppose, Frank performed most embalmings during the day while restricting cremations to the night hours.

Frank conducted only nocturnal cremations out of respect for bereaved family members or friends who might, in daylight, glance at the hilltop mortuary from lower in town and see the last of their loved ones slipping skyward in wispy gray curls.

During other cremations, Frank and his assistant had chatted almost continuously, though we could not quite hear what they said.

A red silk marker kept it open at the day's date on the previous year: eight names, meaning eight cremations that day, eight grieving families who might or might not turn up to pay their respects.

Friday: nine names -the cremations had probably taken place yesterday.

In New York he had seen cremations and funerals on televisionthe death of old grandfather Allbright had been a spectacular ritual of pompous mourning, one of Fisher's earliest memories.

And around the cemeteries of the rich crowded the remains of the poor, the ashes of cremations stored in amphorae stuck in the ground, only their necks protruding into the air.