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Explosion Risk of Cardiac Implantable Electronic Devices During Cremation: Experimental and Survey Findings From Japan [PDF]

Journal of Arrhythmia
Background The widespread use of cardiac implantable electronic devices (CIEDs), combined with increasing global cremation rates, has raised concerns regarding potential explosion risks during cremation. Lithium batteries within these devices may rupture
Takanori Arimoto, Yasushi Oginosawa, Katsuya Ebe, Masatomo Takahashi, Eiichi Watanabe, Haruhiko Abe, Masahiko Takagi, Hiroshi Tada, the Japanese Heart Rhythm Society   +8 more
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The seasonality experiment: Investigating how seasons affect the burning conditions of cremations. [PDF]

PLoS ONE
This study investigates the influence of seasons and weather conditions on cremation processes, using experimental archaeology and advanced analytical techniques.
Elisavet Stamataki, Guy De Mulder, Rosalie Hermans, Martine Vercauteren, Christophe Snoeck   +4 more
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Funerary practices of cremation at the megalithic societies of South-Eastern Iberia: The cemetery of Los Milanes. [PDF]

PLoS ONE
The archaeological excavations undertaken at the Chalcolithic necropolis of Los Milanes have revealed a previously unknown variability in funerary practices in the south-eastern Iberia.
Paula Becerra Fuello, Gonzalo Aranda Jiménez, Miriam Vílchez Suárez, Sonia Robles Carrasco, Lara Milesi García, Marta Díaz-Zorita Bonilla, Christophe Snoeck, Elisavet Stamataki, Javier Lescure, Margarita Sánchez Romero   +9 more
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FIRST AMS 14C DATING OF BRONZE AND PRE-ROMAN IRON AGE CREMATED BONES FROM BARROWS IN WESTERN LITHUANIA: RESULTS AND INTERPRETATION [PDF]

Eesti Arheoloogiaajakiri, 2022
Whilst the practice of cremation first emerged and spread in the East Baltic region during the 2nd–1st millennium BC, non-cremation burials in both barrows and flat cemeteries continued to exist in parallel or the inhumation custom was first replaced ...
Lijana Muradian
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Body donor programs in Australia and New Zealand: Current status and future opportunities. [PDF]

Anat Sci Educ
Abstract Body donation is critical to anatomy study in Australia and New Zealand. Annually, more than 10,000 students, anatomists, researchers, and clinicians access tissue donated by local consented donors through university‐based body donation programs. However, little research has been published about their operations.
Jenkin RA, Keay KA.
europepmc   +2 more sources

Feux croisés

Histoire, Médecine et Santé, 2021
Doctors from several countries promoted funeral cremation at the end of the 19th century in the name of public health. In Quebec, a number of hygienist doctors persuaded themselves of the benefits of cremation for public health.
Martin Robert
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The Intimate Soul of the Pyres: New Archaeological Data from the Terre di Rogo (Pyre Debris) of Pre-Roman Necropolis in Padua (Northern Italy)

Heritage, 2023
The ‘terre di rogo’ (pyre debris) are black-coloured layers resulting from the crematory pyres, placed inside graves within the ritual of secondary deposition and containing different materials, including cremation slags.
Cristina Corti, Sila Motella De Carlo, Laura Rampazzi   +2 more
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The Use of Cremation Data for Timely Mortality Surveillance During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Ontario, Canada: Validation Study

JMIR Public Health and Surveillance, 2022
BackgroundEarly estimates of excess mortality are crucial for understanding the impact of COVID-19. However, there is a lag of several months in the reporting of vital statistics mortality data for many jurisdictions, including ...
Gemma Postill, Regan Murray, Andrew S Wilton, Richard A Wells, Renee Sirbu, Mark J Daley, Laura Rosella   +6 more
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The rite of cremation in contemporary burial practices of the Chukchi reindeer herders [PDF]

Вестник археологии, антропологии и этнографии, 2022
In the Reindeer Chukchi and Koryak cultures, cremation practices did not interrupt for centuries. In contemporary Chukchi culture, burial practices include cremation, leaving the body in the open space, and burial in “Russian style”.
Kolomiets O.P., Nuvano V.N.
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Dead and Cremated

Documenta Praehistorica, 2022
Cremation was one of the permissible burial practices in the Linear Pottery Culture (LPC). This treatment has largely remained unexplained by previous research in Central Europe due to its descriptive nature.
Noémi Beljak Pažinová, Alena Bistáková   +1 more
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