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Vatican bans Catholics from keeping ashes of loved ones at home

Cremation guidelines state remains cannot be scattered or kept at home but…

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No urns on the mantle, no scattering, and no dividing between family members, the Vatican has ruled.
“The church continues to incessantly recommend that the bodies of the dead be buried either in cemeteries or in other sacred ground.”


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In much of Britain, cemeteries are running out of space. Though there are few reliable statistics, most will have reached capacity within 30 years, reckons Tim Morris, chief executive of the Institute of Cemetery and Crematorium Management. The population is growing; the proportion choosing cremation, which rose sharply in the late 20th century, has levelled off http://econ.st/1fm4mGH

Disneyland for ABBA fanatics opens in London

The Swedish quartet ABBA rocketed to stardom after winning the Eurovision
song contest in 1974.

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 The Chinese police dealt with the case quickly, recording a verdict of alcohol poisoning. Mr Heywood’s remains were cremated and a Chinese death certificate was issued. At the time, his family, including his Chinese wife and two children, apparently did not contest the findings.



METRO
As Families Opt for Cremation, Industry Expands Services, Choices
Neighbors in Stafford County, Kurt Zimmerman and Lawrence Mervine got to musing about death one day. Mervine had read that people could have their cremated remains placed in an underwater reef if they wanted. They could even shoot them to the moon.
(By Theresa Vargas, The Washington Post)

Death in the Recession: More Bodies Left Unburied

By Alison Stateman / Los Angeles

As times get tougher, more survivors are leaving the bodies of their loved ones unclaimed, unburied and uncremated — and strapped local governments are finding it harder to handle the corpses

He proudly handed over his cellphone and showed a picture of his daughter, Ke, taken last week. But Thursday morning, he and his wife were preparing for her cremation. They struggled to slip her into the pink pajamas and then dressed her in a gray sweatshirt and pants. Her mother placed a white silk mourning cloth under her clotted black hair.

cremate
verb [T]
to burn a dead person's body, usually as part of a funeral ceremony
火葬/火化
cremation
noun [C or U]
My dad's cremation was a sad affair.

cre・mate

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━━ vt. 火葬にする, 荼毘(だび)に付する.
cre・ma・tion　━━ n.
cre・ma・to・ri・um
　━━ n. （pl. cre・ma・to・ri・ums, cre・ma・to・ria） 〔英〕 ＝crematory.
crem・a・to・ry
　━━ n. 火葬場.

cremate

Pronunciation: /krɪˈmeɪt/

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Definition of cremate

verb

• dispose of (a dead person’s body) by burning it to ashes, typically after a funeral ceremony:she had refused to have her husband cremated

Derivatives

cremation

Pronunciation: /-ˈmeɪʃ(ə)n/

noun

cremator

noun

Origin:

late 19th century (as cremation): from Latin cremare 'burn'



clot (LUMP)
noun [C]
an almost solid lump:
He had a blood clot removed from his brain.

clot 
verb [I] -tt-
to form clots:
He was rushed into hospital because his blood wasn't clotting properly.
an anti-(blood) clotting agent

contest[con・test]

• レベル：大学入試程度

[名] 〔kntest | kn-〕

1 （勝利・優位獲得のための）争い, 抗争(struggle)；（賞を目ざしての）競走, 競争, 競技, コンクール((for ...))

a speech contest
弁論大会

a swimming contest
水泳競技

a hard ［a bitter］ contest
激しい競争

a contest over a will
遺言状をめぐる争い

win ［lose］ a contest
試合に勝つ［負ける］

enter a beauty contest
美人コンテストに参加する

be no contest
勝利まちがいなしだ

be in a contest for ...
…を目ざして争っている.

2 論争, 論議(dispute).

━━[動] 〔kntést〕 (他)

1 …を目ざして戦う, 争う

contest a seat in Congress
（国会の）議席を競う

The prize was hotly contested.
賞が激しく競われた.

2 …について議論を戦わせる, 論争する；…に異議［異論］を唱える

He contests my survey results.
彼は私の調査結果に異議を唱えている.

━━(自)［I（[副]）］（…と）論争［議論］する；争う, 戦う；競争する((with, against ...))

contest with ［against］ a person for ...
…を目ざして人と争う.

［ラテン語contestāri（con-共に＋testārī証言する）］

con・test・a・ble

[形]

con・test・er

[名]abba
n.

1. Bible. In the New Testament, God.
2. abba Used as a title of honor for bishops and patriarchs in some Christian churches of Egypt, Syria, and Ethiopia.

[Middle English, from Late Latin abbā, from Greek. See abbot.]

• 2 [no object] (level off/out) begin to fly horizontally after climbing or diving: he quickly levelled off at 1500 ft
• (of a path, road, or incline) cease to slope:the track levelled out and there below us was the bay
• remain at a steady level after falling or rising:inflation has levelled out at an acceptable rate