Sentence examples for conventional burial from inspiring English sources

Susanne Wiigh-Masak, the Swedish marine biologist who developed and patented the process, said it was more tasteful and better for the environment than cremation or conventional burial: "At 200 degrees below zero the body becomes brittle, so we do not have to use some unethical way to break it up into pieces".

A woodland burial ground is being created to offer a "natural alternative" to conventional burial and cremation, a council has said.

After detailed surveys and analyses of the permafrost conditions along the pipeline route, a conventional burial construction mode at a nominal depth of 1.5 m was adopted.

"We have to face that there are problems related to conventional burial and cremation," says Susanne Wiigh-Masak, a biologist educated at Gothenburg University and a freelance environmental consultant in Lyrö.

"To many people, conventional burial makes less and less sense," she tells me.

Basically a form of compost that's way more environmentally friendly than conventional burial".

Mr Daw, an atheist, says the project is a response to the decline in conventional Christian burials.

"My own mother's burial was very conventional, with a church service," Domingo says.

The second, the Burial of the Sardine, is less conventional: it features Brazilian dance troops and live music, but the centrepiece is an enormous sardine which is pelted with fireworks until it catches fire.

Green burials can be less expensive than conventional funerals, where costs can run between $6,000 and $10,000, because they do not incur the costs of embalming and metal caskets.

A woodland funeral can be as idiosyncratic (or, for that matter, as conventional) as you like.Farmers, too, welcome the growing interest in woodland burial as a means of diversification in these hard times.