Heard an interesting word...
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An ossuary is a chest, box, building, well, or site made to serve as the final resting place of human skeletal remains.
A body is first buried in a temporary grave, then after some years the skeletal remains are removed and placed in an ossuary.
This is a beautiful, bizarre and slightly disturbing rabbit hole if you want to see or know more:
Bone Houses: A Definitive Guide to the World's Ossuaries
i am familiar with this word.
i mean, if you look at my avatar, you might have guessed lol
the truth is that i know a little bit of latin ((osse = bone)) and for very long time i have kept a habit of doing a lot of crossword puzzles . . .
i am familiar with this word.
i mean, if you look at my avatar, you might have guessed lol
the truth is that for very long time i have kept a habit of doing a lot of crossword puzzles . . .
I'm a former cremationist . . . your avatar does look rather familiar (less the pose).
"skeleton supplicant"
it's Colossians 3:3, more or less
what an interesting profession that must have been! i don't think i could keep it up for a lifetime
I only had to do it for seven months before I received my promotion to the business office. The things I saw . . . it was terrifying. I hated most of the job, though working with families was a True treasure. I'll admit . . . I was afraid of cremating people (and an occasional fetus in a bucket). Often I was the only one in the columbarium . . . surrounded by tens of thousands of cremated people. I never saw a ghost but was always looking over my shoulder.
