I don't see Marisela laid out here awaiting proper burial, or anything so charitable.
The basement was used as a vault for storing coffins awaiting burial.
Allardon Elessedil already lay in state, awaiting his funeral and burial.
Her father told Phyllis that in it was the body of a spy awaiting burial.
His body, set on a platform a few feet from the video screen, was covered by a thin white shroud, awaiting burial.
In some places it seems to represent a neutral place where the dead awaited the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus.
She is here, in the church, coffined and awaiting burial.
In this country, the used fuel rods are left in their original form, awaiting burial.
The village chief's face was lined with grief as he gazed at the blanket-covered forms awaiting burial.
It seemed wrong to feel desire when Sally lay awaiting burial.