interment

Someone who exhumed a recent interment without that knowledge might well have discovered something difficult to explain.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2025

His funeral ceremony at the National Cathedral will be held the following day — which President Biden has decreed a national day of mourning — followed by a private interment in his Georgia hometown, Plains.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 1, 2025

“This moment,” said the Rev. Jesse Wendell Mapson, a local pastor involved in planning the commemoration and interment of the 19, “has not come without some pain, discomfort and tension.”

From New York Times ● Feb. 3, 2024

If no one is found after three years, the county will handle the woman’s interment.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 4, 2024

Cora reached for her hair before realizing that after her interment there was no improving her appearance.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead

Neath Port Talbot Council said it was "no longer possible to find suitable space next to earlier interments without risking disturbance to existing remains".

From BBC ● Mar. 13, 2026

The statement called for demarcated and documented individual graves, saying hasty interments could lead to mental anguish for families as well as social and legal problems.

From Reuters ● Sep. 15, 2023

She’d opted to confine her legislation to a three-decade period, she said, because she didn’t believe record-keeping was comprehensive enough to review all interments since Arlington’s establishment in 1864.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 28, 2022

Dedicated in 1848, it boasts more than 120,000 interments that include the graves of Union and Confederate soldiers, paupers and bourbon barons alike.

From Slate ● Dec. 11, 2020

"Placed here 10-5-2084, aged 64 years; this done voluntarily and as a public service to the men of the future, as part of the program of living interments inaugurated in 2067."

From The Buttoned Sky by Geoff St. Reynard