Interment {burial} in a cemetery requires cadaver transportation to funeral parlor, a body container, a cemetery space, and body transportation to cemetery. Funeral directors transport body and supply a casket. You can buy or rent cemetery space in a private cemetery or memorial park. Burials are expensive.
burial {interment}|.
Burning {cremation}| involves body transport to crematorium, a body container, and ash disposition. Funeral directors transport body and supply container. After body burns, ashes go into an urn. People can take urn home, scatter ashes, or place urn in a memorial niche in special facility built to hold urns. Cremations are cheaper than funerals.
To donate body parts {donation} contact eye bank, medical school, or hospital. Institution makes you, or next of kin, complete a consent form. If you decide to donate, you carry a card with instructions about what to do at death. At death, state notifies institution. Institution transports body, uses it, and discards it after use.
Documents can grant permission to use bodies or body parts for medical research or transplantation {body parts donation}.
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