Word: casket
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Funeral directors must give potential customers an itemized price list of all products and services, from the casket to the cosmetics used on the corpse. Up to now, many morticians have offered only one-price package deals that automatically included things that the customer might not want, such as flowers, embalming, body deodorants or an engraved casket name plate. Says Marcia Goldberg, executive director of the Continental Association of Funeral and Memorial Societies: "I've come across cases in which funeral parlors have tried to charge for putting new pantyhose on the body...
...twelve and my fiancée was two. For me, Kennedy's death was a shattering experience that she cannot completely share. When I told her that John Jr. had saluted his father's casket, the gesture meant nothing to her. Yet that little boy's salute still stirs me. For the rest of my life, Kennedy's photograph will hang in my home. But I know that as I get older, fewer people will understand...
...highly decorated treasures, many of which are on exhibition in Cairo. Aided by 10,000 candlepower lights in the tomb, telephones and all the paraphernalia of civilization and modern archeological science, they are patiently removing and restoring the canopies and accessories surrounding the sarcophagus of the Pharaoh. But the casket itself will probably not be opened this year, nor will two other chambers crammed with rare objects. The chief problem of the investigators is to keep the material reasonably intact. The golden screen is in momentary danger of crumbling to dust...
...Brezhnev's funeral rites contains some wondrously macabre details. When the overweight leader's body was placed in its coffin at Moscow's Hall of Trade Unions, the bottom of the shoddily made box collapsed, and the body fell to the floor. A new, metal-reinforced casket was later taken to the burial site on Red Square, where it was supposed to be reverently lowered into an open grave. What actually happened remained unexplained to the millions of Soviet citizens watching the televised interment. The coffin proved too heavy for the two funeral attendants who were holding...
...largest public gatherings since martial law was imposed 17 months ago, nearly 60,000 people thronged the church for the funeral services and joined in the hour-long procession to the cemetery. Fastened to the front of the casket was a red-and-white Solidarity banner. At the graveside, mourners tossed flowers on the casket and then raised their fingers in the V sign that has become the symbol of Polish resistance to authorities. Many wiped away tears as Przemyk's teacher declared: "Greg, I regret that I didn't have time to prepare you for the brutality...