In the industrialised world, formal burial in a coffin is still the preferred method of interment.

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Among the crowds watching the interment ceremony are several dozen Japanese pilgrims.

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The cemetery where Meredith was buried was too bright and too hot on the day of the interment and on every visit thereafter.

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In Britain, Leicester has pioneered good practice in Islamic interment.

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Only military bands will play at his interment.

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