This is particularly true where the funeral directors managing the crematorium are under pressure to cremate within 24 hours of death.
Pottery offerings located in the northwestern part of the floor of the shaft, and cremated human remains located just south of the letterboard, in front of the tomb door.
If someone died of illness or old age, the physician delivered an official statement that the person died from 'natural causes', after which the body could be buried or cremated.
While considering this data, it struck me that there could be some form of conceptual linkage between roasting and cremating, as both transform the animal by direct contact with fire.
The fact that this never happened suggests that the bodies were cremated on the roof on purpose, most likely as part of the above suggested death ritual.
In a sense, however, it may still be argued that the dead were cremated, and in the final sections of this essay such a view will indeed be put forward.
In order to avoid pollution involved in eating a normally reserved animal, the normal conventions of food preparation were reversed, and the cattle, or at least their skeletons, were cremated.
It protects the life of every individual by ensuring that nobody can be buried or cremated without a valid death certificate which attests to the cause of death.
