But in recent years, they've also begun burning paper versions of mobile phones -- and even paper versions of prepaid phone cards, to make sure the phones will work beyond the grave.
For Sunday's Automobiles section, I review gas- and diesel-burning versions of the third-generation ML350, the midsize sport utility vehicle from Mercedes-Benz.
For example, Smith and Mizrahi say it's unlikely that by 2035, all home wood-burning stoves will be replaced by clean-burning versions of natural gas or electric power.
The best will clean the vinyl thoroughly, and systematically remove all the ticks, pops, crackles and whistles of surface and background noise, before carefully "burning" the digital version of the scrubbed-up analogue waveform on to a high-quality compact disk.
"I was really taken with Nina Simone's performance of Charles Aznavour's 'Tomorrow Is My Turn,' in a video of her live in Holland in 1965; it was a slow, burning, really intense version - very unlike the way she recorded it in the studio.
"Burning schools, burning markets.
That would amount, in his view, to a gastronomic version of burning down the house.
I am here, at the scene of a breaking; broken bits, the metaphor of crushed paradise; forested history of burning; a trace element version of heritage.
It is, also, perhaps, one of the first biological finite-state machine encoding more than two sequential states, along with the hin based inversion system used to solve a version of the burning pancake problem [25].
Twitter provided a running commentary on this effort, from the 3D version of the Yuletime burning logs channel to Yoko suggesting John would have loved Twitter and Facebook.
Gainsbourg was accustomed to her father's antics, burning cash on TV or making a reggae version of the French national anthem.
