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Shira Rubin, Washington Post, 7 Apr. 2024
As for more practical matters, like what’ll happen to their possessions when they’re gone or their medical care and burial preferences, tackling them head-on is the best way to calm your fear, according to Dr. Ibeh.
—Cathryne Keller, SELF, 5 Apr. 2024
Clad in Kelly's favorite color green, hundreds of family and friends filled Bellarmine Chapel on Xavier University's campus in Evanston for her mass of Christian burial.
—Scott Wartman, The Enquirer, 4 Apr. 2024
Watch out for that sacred Native American burial site.
—Michael Rosen, National Review, 28 Mar. 2024
Before Spanish colonizers arrived in the region, that area held a village and a massive shell mound with a height of 20 feet and the length and width of a football field that was a ceremonial and burial site.
—Olga R. Rodriguez, Fortune, 13 Mar. 2024
Years pass and new case evidence emerges pointing to Bahman’s father, who made some remarks to a nurse about the potential burial site of the victims.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 12 Mar. 2024
Of those burials, 85% were single tombs and 15% were joint tombs in masonry vaults.
—Moira Ritter, Miami Herald, 5 Mar. 2024
The chambers contained several bodies, and the burial mounds were around 650 feet away from each other.
—Andrea Vacchiano, Fox News, 20 Mar. 2024
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Word History
Middle English beriel, berial, back-formation from beriels (taken as a plural), from Old English byrgels; akin to Old Saxon burgisli tomb, Old English byrgan to bury — more at bury
13th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1
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“Burial.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/burial. Accessed 20 Apr. 2024.
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