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...Casket Controversy...
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...
...thinks that giving customers the option of rejecting extras will help reduce funeral costs. The average price is about $2,400 and can go much higher. At the Ritter Funeral Home in Milwaukee, the prices range from $580 for a cardboard casket and transport for immediate burial to $6,995 for a full-service funeral with the top-of-the-line bronze casket...
...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...