practiced in the past by seafarers. It is not followed anymore, unless the person specifically wills to be despatched thus. Sea burials of an entirely different kind are the underwater telephone lines and pipelines carrying crude petroleum and refined products. Cable-laying ships and pipe-laying barges are used for such work.
A tomb can be regarded as the final resting place of the dead, a repository for the mortal remains of the deceased. Normally, such interment is enclosed within a structure, with the body lying inside a coffin, a sarcophagus, an urn and so on…There are various types of tombs, as would be seen from the list below :
Privately-owned or family vaults – These are underground chambers made of brick or stone, usually with arched roofs and meant for interments mainly (rather than burial). They are located genrally beneath a church building or a churchyard, and are owned by a private group or a family for their exclusive use only.
Church monuments – These cannot strictly be called tombs because they normally do not contain a body. They stand within the church building with the burial vault under them, or they could be tomb-style chests in a churchyard standing over the grave.
Crypts are more like vaults, but without the exclusivity of the privately- or family-owned ones. They are meant for the interment of public, though burials there are not altogether rare.
A Martyrium is a very special type of tomb, holding the bodily remains of a martyr or a saint. The Martyrium of San Pietro in Montorio is an
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