Some businesses are heroically pulling themselves out of the rubble, even as they bury their dead.

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Perhaps it is, in some measure, a defiance of that power that New Orleans bury their dead above ground.

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Here are the catacombs, where Christians used to bury their dead, in a kind of warren-like after-dead ghetto outside the city walls.

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As they bury their dead and watch efforts to recover more bodies, local residents fear that more violence from the conflict raging in the neighboring country will spill over into the town.

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But the Bishnoi, a caste of farmers in Rajasthan, cover their dead in salt and bury them in an unmarked trench.

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But let us pause to bury our dead and stand by the wounded as their struggle with the new reality of their lives.

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Farmers in Wales looking for dead livestock as the snow melt continues have been given a fourth and final week to locate and bury their animals.

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