pyre (noun)

1. In the movie, the protagonist cremated his father on a pyre.

2. The novel ends with a dramatic scene of a funeral pyre blazing on the banks of the river.

3. In the romantic poem, the lovers vow to unite even in death and have their bodies burned on a pyre together.

4. The graphic novel depicted the burning of the funeral pyre as a symbol of the hero's sacrifice to save the world.