Burial

Burial was one of the procedures used throughout most of the galaxy to dispose of the remains of sentient creatures. Sentients were buried underground and the location marked with a tombstone, or entombed inside of crypts. A variation of this was space burial—in which the deceased was sealed inside a casket and this casket was then launched into space. An alternative to burial was cremation, or the disposal of remains by burning them, which was another popular method of disposing of the remains of deceased sentients.

The Sacorrian moon of Sarcophagus was entirely devoted to being a burial ground for the planet. On Coruscant the Senatorial Tombs was the final resting place of many Senators, many of whom were frozen in carbonite and interred in the tombs. Senator Viento was buried in this manner after his assassination in 20 BBY.

Space burial was a popular method of disposal, especially for military personnel. Lujayne Forge was one person who was buried in space. Following her death 6.5 years after the Battle of Yavin during an attack on the Rogue Squadron base on Talasea by Imperial stormtroopers, she and the other six sentries who had been killed in the attack were buried in space after a memorial service on board the New Republic ship Reprieve.

According to Lobot, there were were twenty-two thousand, four hundred eight known cultures which entombed riches with the dead by the time of the Black Fleet Crisis.

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