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...never knew where he was buried," Rashid moaned, closing the casket and hoisting it with pallbearers who repeated, "No one but God." The body will be reburied in the holy Shiite city of Najaf...
Some colleges have turned this new trend into a business venture, officially contracting companies like Collegiate Memorials to fashion entire lines of insignia products—including caskets, monuments, vaults and urns. For those seeking even more distinction, the urns come in three styles: “The Legacy,” “The Glory” and “The Victory.” The business is a lucrative one—even though basic royalty rates are only 5 to 10 percent, a casket alone can run up to $25,000. “There...
...handful of requests every year for permission to engrave the Harvard shield over the final resting place of an alum. On a case-by-case basis, the trademarking office is happy to oblige and, more importantly, demands no royalties. The office then contacts the manufacturer of the headstone or casket and issues a licensed image of the shield. The shield appears as simply “Veritas” or “Veritas” bordered by a wreath. Meanwhile, the alum rests in peace, dropping the H-Bomb unto eternity...
Jackie Kennedy rested her hand on the casket as it was wheeled down the loading ramp of the hospital. For the first time we saw the bloodstains on her pink suit. She climbed into a white hearse with the lifeless body of her husband, while on the parking apron, the mortician argued with the Secret Service about payment for the casket...
From 1957, when I met John F. Kennedy and began to write about him, to 1963, when I saw his casket wheeled out of Parkland Hospital in Dallas, I observed him in public as closely as any other journalist. I never saw Kennedy emotionally or physically impaired for any great length of time or at any important moment. The medical treatment I witnessed seemed reasonable for a man who had suffered so many years of discomfort. But Dallek's idea that Kennedy overcame pain and his faltering system through nonstop, heroic willpower and feverish pill popping is surely exaggerated...