Search Results: cremation
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Binoy Kampmark
- 17 August 2022
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Uncle Boda was a figure who managed to tease out an image at one mention with his humble and unambitious doctor’s practice, for which he worked for years to obtain. He had read medicine in India, and to this day it remains unclear how long he spent trying to earn his degree.
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RELIGION
- Andrew Hamilton
- 02 November 2016
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Last week the Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith issued an Instruction on the conditions under which cremation is legitimate for Catholics. The starting point is the conviction that for Christians the best way of treating the body after death is through burial. Yet cremation is open to possibilities that the Instruction does not envisage. Sprinkling the ashes over the sea or a place significant to the dead person can be consistent with an informed Christian sensibility. It need not be pantheistic.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Jordie Albiston
- 21 June 2011
5 Comments
Prayer has not prevailed. She sits silent without lover or friend: she slumps in her blackened skirts: she slumps in black dust: she slumps in her black that was green.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Peter Lach-Newinsky
- 12 February 2008
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candles and candle holders for funeral ceremony.. hand bouquet for the deceased.. coffin storage fee at cemetery cool room.. technical cremation fee
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INTERNATIONAL
- Carol Ransley & Toe Zaw Latt
- 03 October 2007
4 Comments
Two out of five children in Burma are severely malnourished, and the majority of people live in dire poverty. Then the ruling
State Peace and Development Council instructed all Ministry of
Energy distribution outlets to raise the prices of fuel.
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AUSTRALIA
The city cyclo traffic could be negotiated because cramped spaces have generated considerate attitudes rather than rage. Physical accommodations to crowding and privation tempt the traveller into laudatory flights, but the people’s attitudes seem altogether too matter-of-fact.
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