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1658 The first to advocate for the use of cremation was the physician Sir Thomas Browne in Urne Buriall (1658) which interpreted cremation as means of oblivion and reveals plainly that "'there is no antidote against the Opium of time...".[12]
1973-Today Neptune Society
1997 In 1997, the funeral rite was modified so that church funerals can take place when the body has already been cremated before the ashes are brought to the church. In such cases, the ashes are placed in an urn or another worthy vessel, brought into the church and placed on a stand near the Easter candle. During the church service and committal rite, prayers that make reference to the body are modified, replacing references to the "Body" of the deceased with "Earthly Remains."
2016 On August 15, 2016, it was approved the instruction Ad resurgendum cum Christo that prohibited the dispersion of the ashes "in the air, on the ground or in water or in any other way" nor their conversion into "objects" to be kept for example at home. The instruction required that they be preserved in a sacred place such as a cemetery "or, if appropriate, in a church or in an area specifically dedicated for this purpose by the competent ecclesiastical authority".[8][9]
789 Cremation was even outlawed and punishable with death by Charlemagne in AD 789 for this reason.[1] Beginning in the Middle Ages, rationalists and classicists began to advocate for cremation. In Medieval Europe, cremation was practiced only on certain occasions when there were many corpses to be disposed of simultaneously after a battle, during famine or an epidemics to stop an imminent threat of disease spread.
Cremation by country
Cremation in Christianity
Hinduism and Jainism are notable for not only allowing but prescribing cremation. Cremation in India is first attested in the Cemetery H culture (from c. 1900 BCE), considered the last phase of Indus Valley Civilisation and beginning of the Vedic civilization. The Rigveda contains a reference to the emerging practice, in RV 10.15.14, where the forefathers "both cremated (agnidagdhá-) and uncremated (ánagnidagdha-)" are invoked.
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Secondary cremation
The rise of Christianity saw an end to cremation in Europe, though it may have already been in decline.[7]

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