Efforts are focussing instead on the need to cremate the thousands of dead to prevent the spread of disease.

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They might decide that it was time to cremate him at that place he had chosen, just down from his house overlooking the sea.

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In India, Hindus generally try to cremate bodies the same day a person dies if the death occurs before dusk, and furnaces generally run on electricity.

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Since he had to leave his physical body behind, Li asked a student to watch over it, instructing him to cremate it if his spirit had not returned after a week.

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Bormann's family now intend to cremate the body.

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Situated on the banks of the Ganges River, Varanasi (formerly Benares) is visited by millions of Hindu pilgrims each year, most coming to cremate a deceased loved one and bathe themselves in the river's horrifically polluted but extremely holy waters.

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They don't want to bury or cremate them.

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"At the end of the day, they say his grave can be exhumed and they can cremate Jimmy Savile and they can put him in a private place known only to the family, " he said.

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