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"scope_statement": "This model owns cremation as an act of reducing deceased human or animal remains through a thermal process, from acceptance for cremation through recovery and transfer of the resulting remains; it records broader uses of the term as explicit boundary questions.", "in_scope": [ "Identity, type and condition of remains accepted for cremation", "Documented authority, instructions and readiness to proceed", "The thermal cremation event and its recorded operating conditions", "Recovery, processing, identification and custody of cremated remains", "Cremation-specific environmental controls and ceremonial requirements" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Determination of death, cause of death and forensic investigation", "Funeral services and bereavement support beyond their interfaces with cremation", "Design, construction and general management of crematoria", "Burial, scattering, interment or other final disposition after transfer", "General waste incineration and destruction of non-funerary biological material", "Detailed models of nonthermal disposition methods" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "The object of the act is deceased human or animal remains, rather than an ordinary waste stream.", "The intended transformation uses heat to reduce those remains; a nonthermal method requires an explicit terminology and scope decision.", "The act is distinguishable from a funeral ceremony: either can occur without the other.", "The thermal event, subsequent processing of recovered remains and final disposition are separately identifiable stages.", "An individual cremation claim can be assessed against records of separation and custody; collective cremation requires different expectations about attribution and return." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Subject category", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Human remains; animal remains; other or unresolved", "why_it_matters": "Determines which authority, handling and disposition requirements must be established." }, { "name": "Cremation method", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Enclosed thermal process; open pyre; other thermal method; unresolved terminology", "why_it_matters": "Separates materially different operating settings and prevents assuming every cremation uses a cremator." }, { "name": "Separation arrangement", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Individual; partitioned shared process; collective; unknown", "why_it_matters": "Constrains claims about whose remains can be recovered and returned." }, { "name": "Readiness status", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Awaiting identification; awaiting authority; awaiting preparation; ready; held", "why_it_matters": "Makes unresolved prerequisites visible before an irreversible act." }, { "name": "Disposition authority", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Links to authorising party, supporting record, applicable jurisdiction and verification", "why_it_matters": "Connects the decision to proceed with evidence of who may make it." }, { "name": "Process stage", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Accepted; prepared; thermal process underway; cooling; recovered; processed; transferred; exception", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes completion of heating from readiness to release remains." }, { "name": "Recorded thermal conditions", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Temperature in degrees Celsius and duration in minutes, with measurement location and time", "why_it_matters": "Allows operating evidence to be interpreted without treating a single temperature as a universal completion rule." }, { "name": "Recovered remains mass", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Grams or kilograms, identifying whether measured before or after processing", "why_it_matters": "Documents recovery while avoiding unsupported identity or completeness claims from mass alone." }, { "name": "Custody continuity", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Documented; documented with discrepancies; incomplete; disputed", "why_it_matters": "Shows whether identity and handover claims have an adequate recorded basis." }, { "name": "Ceremonial instructions", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Links to documented wishes, authorised instructions, requested observances and agreed accommodations", "why_it_matters": "Makes relevant preferences actionable without inferring them from a person's presumed beliefs." } ], "affordances": [ "Classify a proposed disposition as thermal cremation or flag an unresolved terminology boundary.", "Identify missing authority, identification or preparation evidence and recommend holding the process.", "Track a cremation through heating, cooling, recovery, processing and transfer.", "Check whether separation and custody records support a promised individual return.", "Compare recorded operating and emissions evidence with explicitly sourced local requirements.", "Coordinate documented ceremonial instructions with operational constraints and escalate conflicts." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "cremation-identity-and-boundaries", "name": "Cremation identity and boundaries", "description": "Establishes what act is being modelled and what claims can be made about its subjects.", "rationale": "The word cremation can conceal differences in method, subject and separation that change the meaning of completion and return.", "layers": [ { "id": "subject-and-method", "name": "Subject and method", "description": "Identifies the deceased remains and the intended thermal transformation.", "findings": [ { "id": "thermal-disposition-classification", "name": "Thermal disposition classification", "description": "Record the actual method and subject independently of the service's advertised name.", "questions": [ { "text": "Are these human or animal remains, and what thermal method is proposed?", "kind": "definition", "id": "thermal-disposition-classification-q01" }, { "text": "Does the service name include a nonthermal process that should be linked to a neighbouring 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"action", "id": "documented-permission-to-proceed-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "remains-and-associated-materials", "name": "Remains and associated materials", "description": "Addresses the container, implanted devices and accompanying items before the thermal event.", "findings": [ { "id": "preparation-disposition-record", "name": "Preparation disposition record", "description": "Record assessed preparation needs and the authorised handling of items removed, retained or included.", "questions": [ { "text": "What evidence identifies implanted devices, container materials or accompanying objects requiring assessment under the chosen process?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "preparation-disposition-record-q01" }, { "text": "Which preparation actions are required by the applicable procedure, and who verifies their completion?", "kind": "action", "id": "preparation-disposition-record-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "thermal-event-and-environment", "name": "Thermal event and environment", "description": "Captures execution, completion evidence and environmental performance of the cremation event.", "rationale": "A cremation must be assessed through method-specific evidence rather than an assumed universal heating recipe.", "layers": [ { "id": "thermal-execution", "name": "Thermal execution", "description": "Records the operating context, observed conditions and interruptions.", "findings": [ { "id": "event-completion-evidence", "name": "Event completion evidence", "description": "Link the thermal event to its equipment or setting, operator record and stated completion criteria.", "questions": [ { "text": "What temperatures, durations and observations were recorded, and where and how were they measured?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "event-completion-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "What applicable criteria establish completion, and how are interruptions or incomplete processing resolved?", "kind": "action", "id": "event-completion-evidence-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": 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handover.", "rationale": "Ending the thermal event does not establish that remains are ready for release or that their identity is adequately documented.", "layers": [ { "id": "recovery-and-processing", "name": "Recovery and processing", "description": "Distinguishes recovered remains from separated materials and subsequent processing.", "findings": [ { "id": "recovered-material-account", "name": "Recovered material account", "description": "Record the recovery stage, processing performed and disposition of separated materials.", "questions": [ { "text": "What material was recovered, what processing followed, and at which stage was any mass measured?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "recovered-material-account-q01" }, { "text": "What instructions and applicable requirements govern separated metals, unprocessed fragments or other residual material?", "kind": "action", "id": "recovered-material-account-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "identification-and-handover", "name": "Identification and handover", "description": "Maintains the connection between accepted remains, the thermal event and released containers.", "findings": [ { "id": "custody-supported-release", "name": "Custody-supported release", "description": "Make each identification and transfer claim traceable, including discrepancies and divided remains.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which identifiers and custody records connect acceptance, cremation, recovery and each resulting container?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "custody-supported-release-q01" }, { "text": "Who is authorised to receive each container, and what discrepancy would require holding its release?", "kind": "action", "id": "custody-supported-release-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "wishes-and-disposition-interface", "name": "Wishes and disposition interface", "description": "Coordinates documented observances and the transition from cremation to subsequent disposition.", "rationale": "Cremation can carry specific personal and ceremonial requirements, 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What is recognised is an instance of it, and which instances count is exactly what is argued about." ], "relatedModels": [ { "relation": "covers", "note": "Finer kinds folded into this entry because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it. Each is a model waiting to be split out when one does.", "targets": [ "cremation in Japan", "vivicremation", "Secondary cremation" ] } ], "standing": "Described in 67 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 3 finer distinctions are held inside this entry as names rather than as separate models.", "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "identity-and-classification", "name": "Identity, naming and classification", "description": "How an agent tells one cremation from another, and a cremation from things that resemble it.", "rationale": "Recognition comes before every other claim. 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"knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the name of a cremation is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers", "name": "Stable identifiers and external keys", "description": "Identifiers that keep pointing at this kind of thing across systems and languages.", "questions": [ { "id": "stable-identifiers-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes an identifier for a cremation, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about an identifier for a cremation, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once an identifier for a cremation is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "classification-and-granularity", "name": "Classification and granularity", "description": "Where a cremation sits among kinds, and how finely a task needs to cut it.", "findings": [ { "id": "kind-and-parents", "name": "Kind, parents and neighbouring kinds", "description": "The classes this thing belongs to and the ones it is next to.", "questions": [ { "id": "kind-and-parents-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the kind of a cremation, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "kind-and-parents-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the kind of a cremation, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "kind-and-parents-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the kind of a cremation is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features", "name": "Distinguishing features", "description": "What separates a cremation from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a cremation, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about what distinguishes a cremation, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once what distinguishes a cremation is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "state-and-lifecycle", "name": "State and lifecycle", "description": "The states a cremation passes through and the events that move it between them.", "rationale": "Most decisions about a thing depend on what state it is in now, which is a claim with a time on it, not a property.", "layers": [ { "id": "lifecycle-stages", "name": "Lifecycle stages", "description": "From coming into existence to ceasing to be one of these.", "findings": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions", "name": "Stages and transitions", "description": "The stages worth naming and what moves a cremation between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a cremation, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the lifecycle of a cremation, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the lifecycle of a cremation is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "observations-and-status", "name": "Observations and current status", "description": "What is observed about a cremation, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a cremation is recorded so that it can be superseded rather than overwritten.", "questions": [ { "id": "observation-record-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes an observation of a cremation, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "observation-record-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about an observation of a cremation, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "observation-record-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once an observation of a cremation is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "process-and-outcome", "name": "Process, inputs and outcome", "description": "How a cremation proceeds, what it needs and what it leaves behind.", "rationale": "An activity is known by its steps and its results, and both have to be recordable while it is still running.", "layers": [ { "id": "steps-and-sequence", "name": "Steps and sequence", "description": "The steps of a cremation, their order and what may run in parallel.", "findings": [ { "id": "steps-and-preconditions", "name": "Steps, preconditions and completion", "description": "What has to be true before each step of a cremation and what marks it done.", "questions": [ { "id": "steps-and-preconditions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a step of a cremation, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "steps-and-preconditions-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about a step of a cremation, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "steps-and-preconditions-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once a step of a cremation is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "inputs-and-results", "name": "Inputs, resources and results", "description": "What a cremation consumes and what it produces.", "findings": [ { "id": "inputs-and-outputs", "name": "Inputs, outputs and side effects", "description": "The resources a cremation takes and the results it leaves, wanted or not.", "questions": [ { "id": "inputs-and-outputs-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the inputs and results of a cremation, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "inputs-and-outputs-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the inputs and results of a cremation, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "inputs-and-outputs-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the inputs and results of a cremation is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "definitions-in-contest", "name": "Definitions and who holds them", "description": "What cremation is taken to mean, and by whom.", "rationale": "When a field disagrees about a concept, the disagreement is the content. A model that picks one definition silently destroys the information.", "layers": [ { "id": "competing-definitions", "name": "Competing definitions", "description": "The main readings and the traditions behind them.", "findings": [ { "id": "definition-map", "name": "Definitions and their holders", "description": "Each definition with the school or body that holds it.", "questions": [ { "id": "definition-map-q01", "text": "Which definitions of cremation are in use, and which tradition or body holds each?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "definition-map-q02", "text": "What turns on the difference between them in practice?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "operationalisation", "name": "Operationalisation", "description": "How it is measured or applied when it has to be.", "findings": [ { "id": "operational-record", "name": "Measures and proxies", "description": "Instruments and indicators used to stand in for it.", "questions": [ { "id": "operational-record-q01", "text": "How is cremation operationalised or measured in practice, and by what instrument?", "kind": "measurement" }, { "id": "operational-record-q02", "text": "What does that operationalisation leave out, and when does that matter?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "instances-and-use", "name": "Instances, use and consequence", "description": "What counts as an instance of cremation and what follows from calling something that.", "rationale": "Applying a concept is an act with consequences, so a model must say what the label licenses and what it does not.", "layers": [ { "id": "instances", "name": "What counts as an instance", "description": "Clear cases, borderline cases and non-cases.", "findings": [ { "id": "instance-tests", "name": "Tests for an instance", "description": "What would settle whether something falls under it.", "questions": [ { "id": "instance-tests-q01", "text": "What would settle whether something is an instance of cremation?", "kind": "boundary" }, { "id": "instance-tests-q02", "text": "Which borderline cases are argued about, and on what grounds?", "kind": "definition" } ] } ] }, { "id": "consequence", "name": "Consequence of application", "description": "Rights, duties or decisions that follow from the label.", "findings": [ { "id": "consequence-record", "name": "What the label licenses", "description": "What an agent may do once something is classified this way.", "questions": [ { "id": "consequence-record-q01", "text": "What follows practically once something is treated as cremation?", "kind": "action" }, { "id": "consequence-record-q02", "text": "What must an agent not infer from the label alone?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a cremation came from and when it held.", "rationale": "A claim without a source and a time cannot be superseded, only overwritten, and an agent that overwrites loses the ability to explain itself.", "layers": [ { "id": "source-and-authority", "name": "Source and authority", "description": "Who said it, on what evidence, and how strongly.", "findings": [ { "id": "claim-provenance", "name": "Claim provenance and confidence", "description": "The authority behind each claim about a cremation and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a cremation, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "claim-provenance-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about a claim about a cremation, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "claim-provenance-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once a claim about a cremation is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "time-and-versions", "name": "Time, versions and supersession", "description": "When a claim was true, when it was learnt, and what replaced it.", "findings": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession", "name": "Validity period and supersession", "description": "How an old claim about a cremation is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a cremation, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the validity of a claim about a cremation, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the validity of a claim about a cremation is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "statistics": { "bundles": 6, "layers": 12, "findings": 14, "questions": 38 } } } }