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  2. Viewing (funeral) - Wikipedia

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    During a closed-casket funeral, the corpse is not on display and it may or may not be held in a church or funeral home. [5] If a corpse has not been embalmed, the service would be held in an urban cemetery's chapel mausoleum prior to the burial or a crematorium (crematory in the United States and Canada) prior to cremation.

  3. Funeral home - Wikipedia

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    If this is not possible, or the family wishes, the funeral home can perform a "closed casket" service. [1] The funeral home often sets aside one or more large areas for people to gather at a visitation. This area may contain a space to display the body in a casket to visitors who may pay their respects. Funeral and memorial services may also ...

  4. Funeral - Wikipedia

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    A funeral is a ceremony connected with the final disposition of a corpse, such as a burial or cremation, with the attendant observances. [1] Funerary customs comprise the complex of beliefs and practices used by a culture to remember and respect the dead, from interment, to various monuments, prayers, and rituals undertaken in their honour.

  5. Death and state funeral of Jimmy Carter - Wikipedia

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    Upon arrival back in Georgia, Carter's remains traveled by motorcade to Maranatha Baptist Church in his hometown of Plains for a private funeral service with his family and close friends. Numerous military members greeted the casket, while a 21-plane flyover was conducted before his casket was removed from the hearse.

  6. Supersize my funeral: caskets for the overabundant American - AOL

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    Here's a nightmare scenario; at the funeral for your considerably-overweight loved one, the funeral director lowers the top of the casket after viewing hours, only to find that, like an ...

  7. In Ukraine, a family's ordeal to identify and honor a veteran ...

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    Many of the locals who came for Shadlovskyi's memorial service and funeral placed flowers on the closed casket. He was buried in a section of the central cemetery called the Alley of Heroes as he ...

  8. State funeral of John F. Kennedy - Wikipedia

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    Throughout the day and night, hundreds of thousands lined up to view the guarded casket, [4] [5] with a quarter million passing through the rotunda during the 18 hours of lying in state. [4] Kennedy's funeral service was held on November 25 at St. Matthew's Cathedral. [6] The Requiem Mass was led by Cardinal Richard Cushing. [6]

  9. Impaired driver who fatally struck 2 Nevada state troopers ...

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    Abbate's mother said she is still wrestling with the grief of losing her son, whose injuries were so severe the family had to hold a closed-casket funeral service. “My heart hurts every second ...