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Encyclopedic overview
15 sectionsContents
- Materials
- Ireland
- Poland
- Pyre remains in Britain
- Analysis of bone fragment size
- Uses
- Secular
- Sati practice in Nepal & India
- Environmental impacts of pyres
- Environmental impact in Southern Asia
- Environmental impacts in India
- Legality of open-air pyres
- Roman pyres
- Forensic evaluation of pyres
- References
thumb|An Ubud cremation ceremony in 2005
A pyre (; ), also known as a funeral pyre, is a structure, usually made of wood, for burning a body as part of a funeral rite or execution. As a form of cremation, a body is placed upon or under the pyre, which is then set on fire.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “pyre” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.