Mr. Sackett was at Arlington National Cemetery interring his father-in-law when he got the call.

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Already Finnish nuclear utility Posiva is test-drilling the rock beneath Olkiluoto island with the idea of interring waste one-third of a mile down.

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Graves, even tiny plots for interring the bony thyroid cartilage (the only part that is buried after a cremation), are prohibitively expensive to maintain.

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More than 8, 000 people have signed an online petition in favour of keeping the king's remains in Leicester, but over 26, 000 have signed up to support re-interring his remains in York.

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More than 7, 500 people have signed an online petition in favour of keeping the king's remains in Leicester, but nearly 25, 000 have signed up to support re-interring his remains in York Minster.

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