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cremains

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cre·mains  (kr-mnz)
pl.n.
The ashes that remain after cremation of a corpse.

[Blend of cremated, past participle of cremate and remains.]
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Noun1.cremains - the remains of a dead body after cremation
cadaver, corpse, remains, stiff, clay - the dead body of a human being; "the cadaver was intended for dissection"; "the end of the police search was the discovery of a corpse"; "the murderer confessed that he threw the stiff in the river"; "honor comes to bless the turf that wraps their clay"


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Often people are interested in keeping some of those remains, but the beauty of these pieces is they can sit on a mantle, dining room or coffee table and no one needs to know it's housing the cremains of a loved one.
``There used to be more than 1,600,'' cremains in a year, said Craig Harvey, spokesman for the Department of Coroners.
Six Feet Under has been praised as an unabashed portrait of the "death industry," covering the rituals of embalming and the benefits of cremains.
 
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