ashes

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In March 2024, police found their son's body, still at the funeral home, and the family were told the ashes were not Sunny's.

From BBC • Apr. 2, 2026

Undertaker Robert Bush hoarded dozens of bodies and half a tonne of human ashes.

From BBC • Apr. 2, 2026

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

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

She couldn’t make soap with ashes and fat as Aunt Chipo had done in the village—every morsel of fat went down her throat—but she made a reasonable substitute from the boiled roots of ruredzo plants.

From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer