Columbarium
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A columbarium, also called a cinerarium, is a structure for the reverential and usually public storage of funerary urns holding cremated remains of the dead. The term comes from the Latin columba (dove) and originally solely referred to compartmentalized housing for doves and pigeons, also called dovecotes.
The San Francisco Columbarium
Columbarium wall, with flowers, plaques, and empty niches
Detail of the columbarium at Père Lachaise Cemetery, Paris
A modern columbarium in a small town (Ebingen, Germany)
Cremation
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Cremation is a method of final disposition of a dead body through burning.
An electric cremator in Austria
Bronze container of ancient cremated human remains, complete with votive offering
An 1820 painting showing a Hindu funeral procession in South India. The pyre is to the left, near a river, the lead mourner is walking in front, the dead body is wrapped in white and is being carried to the cremation pyre, relatives and friends follow.
The Woking Crematorium, built in 1878 as the first facility in England after a long campaign led by the Cremation Society of Great Britain.