Sentence examples for formal burial from inspiring English sources

In the 8th century (it is said) formal burial became more generally available, and that "democratization" of burial is evidence for a fundamentally new attitude toward society.

When one of them died, he felt the loss so keenly that he gave it a formal burial, laying its roots and shoots in a hole and covering them with dust.

The 20 skulls already found are not from a formal burial ground, but were discovered in clumps, possibly caught in bends on the banks of the long-vanished river Walbrook.

But fighting between different factions of the organization has delayed exhumation of the bodies, as well as the author's formal burial, which the family had scheduled for April 24.

For the same reason, in India, a family's first port of call after a death has occurred will often be to the "ice wallah" at the nearby market.In the industrialised world, formal burial in a coffin is still the preferred method of interment.

A cemetery doesn't sound like the most appealing place to have an open day – when most people think of one images of rows of tombstones spring to mind, but, as I discovered, this was more nature reserve than formal burial ground.

Saul, who is understandably deranged, becomes convinced that a young boy, who temporarily survived gassing, is his son, and Saul wants him to have a formal Jewish burial, overseen by a rabbi.

However, funerary architecture often offered a means of "moving beyond the strictures of formal Muslim burial rites" and expressing social dimensions such as status, piety, love for the deceased, and Muslim identity.

She adds that she came up with the idea when she realised that there were many people like her and her husband who would like give their pets a formal cremation or burial.

To spare the family the delay and expense of a formal undertaker's burial (or the indignity of pauper's grave), Grampa is laid to rest by his kin, surreptitiously, by the side of the road -- in the quilt Sairy had volunteered for the sick bed.

This was the dramatic beginning of the formal Liturgy of Christian Burial for First Lady, Nancy Reagan.