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Since at least 1900 B.C. [[Hinduism]] has supported use of a funeral pyre to burn a body after death.

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== Law Concerning Cremation ==

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The [[common law]] generally honored statements in wills, or in writing other than in wills, or orally, by a living person concerning the post-mortem burial or cremation of his own body.<ref>See 7 A.L.R. 3d 747, 749-50 (1966); 54 A.L.R. 3d 1037 (1973).</ref>

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