ashes

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The legislation prohibits the use of residential properties "specifically for the placement of ashes" as well as the burial of remains outside of cemeteries and areas where ecological burial is legal.

From BBC • Mar. 31, 2026

Their loved one's ashes are placed inside and the space turned into an ancestral shrine.

From BBC • Mar. 31, 2026

Michael Gittins travelled on the final service with his wife Lucy as they scattered her late father's ashes in the river.

From BBC • Mar. 29, 2026

Martínez had the man’s body cremated, and stored the ashes in a wooden niche in the shelter’s small chapel.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 21, 2026

It surrounded her with a swirl of gray ashes.

From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer