cemetery

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The Chinese government is set to ban people from storing the cremated remains of their loved ones in empty apartments instead of paying for expensive cemetery plots.

From BBC • Mar. 31, 2026

Pusztavacs, which has 1,300 inhabitants, received state support to renovate its cemetery and church and got its first automatic cash machine last year as part of a government law to install machines in all villages.

From Barron's • Mar. 29, 2026

The cemetery, too, starts to overflow, and so bodies must be burned.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 26, 2026

Only one location, the urban cemetery of Ribe, showed a pattern connected to health.

From Science Daily • Mar. 13, 2026

The old Balm of Gilead cemetery was along Quagmire Road, about halfway between here and home.

From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck