Interments

These are not funerals, just short-term interments, said town official Toshiaki Aizawa. ❋ Unknown (2011)

"interments," of "caskets," and "coaches," using terms that were calculated rather to bring out the majesty and sublimity of death than to parade its horrors. ❋ Stephen Leacock (1906)

Data from Cipfa, the organisation for accountants in the public sector, shows that between 2008 and 2009 the average fee for interments in the UK rose from £458 to £493, up 8.7%. ❋ Patrick Collinson (2010)

The VA, which manages 131 cemeteries with 3 million gravesites (Arlington has 330,000), started digitizing all new interments in 1994, said Steve Muro, the agency's acting undersecretary for memorial affairs. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Under that loose system -- which the inspector general found was not inspected or audited for more than 10 years by officials up the Army's chain of command -- the price for contracted work sometimes doubled, and none of the contracts produced a usable system to replace the cemetery's centuries-old method of verifying interments using 3-by-5 cards and other paper records. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The crusaders who had struggled for decades to place Prohibition in the Constitution celebrated with rallies and prayer sessions and ritual interments of effigies representing John Barleycorn, the symbolic proxy for alcohol's evils. ❋ Unknown (2010)

By comparison, the Department of Veterans Affairs, which manages 131 cemeteries with 3 million graves, started digitizing all new interments in 1994. ❋ Unknown (2010)

There are 23 interments daily, and the ladies are on hand to ensure that none is conducted in a bleak and friendless atmosphere. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Illinois lawmakers this week considered additional regulation to require the exact location of interments on death certificates. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Saint Lazare was as crowded as all the other cemeteries of Paris, where funerals or interments were popular public spectacles, where the grave-makers performed with skulls and bones for the amusement of the crowds, and hungry coffin-sellers plied their wares. ❋ Young Geoffrion (2009)

It heth ane handsome church, with many ancient monuments and inscriptions on the old, interments of the Earles of this place. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Secondary interments, which consisted of partially articulated and unarticulated human remains, were found in the same general locations as the primary interments, and additionally within fill strata in the northernmost part of the park, mostly east of the Tweed Courthouse. ❋ Unknown (2007)

With few exceptions, the primary interments were south and east of the Tweed Courthouse, in an area that appears to be the burial ground of the First Almshouse and not associated with the African Burial Ground. ❋ Unknown (2007)