Must one bury the ash that remains after cremation if a Jew was creamted Chas Veshalom?

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The cremated ashes of a Jew do not require burial. If they are buried, they are not to be buried in the regular part of the cemetery [not even in the non-Shomer Shabbos section] and rather they are to be buried outside the cemetery fence.[1]

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[1] Seridei Eish 2:123; Igros Moshe Y.D. 3:147; Nitei Gavriel ibid; See Gesher Hachaim 16:7

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