Funerals

The costs vary by airline and by what condition the remains are in. They go by air frieght, so in addition to the special packaging you get charged for weight. If the body has been cremated, you just need a sealed urn in a box and the proper paperwork. An embalmed body is shipped in an FAA approved, special cardboard casket banded to a special pallet- the airlines actually have special carts just for handling these. An unembalmed body may be shipped but usually it has to be in a sealed metal casket.

Cremated remains might cost $300 or more to ship cross country, an embalmed body or casket upwards of $2000 for cross country flight (plus of course the emblaming and prep work, and the container, with a steel casket easily costing thousands by itself). This does not include permits, paperwork, fuel surcharges, etc. The paperwork is extensive, so the best bet is to find a funeral home that has experience shipping bodies by airline, and let them handle everything. At a busy airport each major airline may handle a dozen bodies a day, so there is no reason to make it hard and try and do it yourself.

The wake is specifically for you to go and view the body of the person who has passed on. The funeral's purpose is to celebrate the person's life and to lay them to rest.

Being asked to help carry the coffin

Willy thought that it was important to have lots of friends, but he has few friends in the end.

Yes, but most Jewish cemeteries don't allow cremation, since Torah-law calls for burial.

No one 'has' to attend a funeral. One does so out of love, respect, and sympathy for the survivors. Attending a funeral is hard, but it is the right thing to do. If you absolutely cannot bring yourself to attend, then don't go. However, it is often less difficult to come to terms with a loss by being there to say your final goodbyes.

It depends on how she feels about it, funerals are very private family functions. So if she is close to him, or the person, then she can ask to join. It also depends how close the boyfriend is to the family or person that passed away.

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They're considered symbols of joy, which are inappropriate for sad occasions.

By law, the funeral director takes their instruction from the contractor for the service, or in other words, the individual who has ordered the elements of the service provided. In many cases, where parents are divorced, yet both hold full parental rights, the Funeral Director may accept instruction from either party. However, this would require that the individuals requesting or mandating services become liable for the funeral debt.

Sadly, when a child has grown and perhaps has not stayed in contact with both parents, the parent who is notified or present at the death, becomes the de facto principle for arranging the service. Common courtesy would dictate that the spouse arranging the funeral should contact the other parent to discuss funeral arrangements, who would be paying for the services ordered, and any particular elements within the service. It's a sad fact, however, that spouses and even siblings have been known to arrange funerals, including the cremation or burial of a parent and deliberately not telling one or more siblings. Sometimes this is in some way connected to the deceased's assets. At other times, it has to do with a passive-aggressive attempt to psychologically punish a family member.

Some documented excuses have been when a spouse works for a national company, such as the Gas Board, Electricity Board, Telephone Company, or an airline, etc. The passive-aggressive individual asserts that they tried to phone many times, but were left holding for an infinite amount of time and sent through a maze of calling options, then being disconnected. So, the 'PA' claims, they sent a written note to the company....as they weren't exactly certain what the department was in which you worked. Courts have had little recourse but to express their disgust, but indicate there is no way to prove a deliberate malicious act.

It may also be that the person paying for the funeral was simply incapable of paying the outrageous fees funeral services charge for a 'hole-in-the-ground' and the highly dubious requirements for ancillary services, such as a vault, etc.

Try not to focus your anger on the Funeral Director; they will have acted in strict accordance with the principle's instructions. If the principle disagrees and claims they had no intention to have the deceased cremated, then most probably there are grounds for litigation and should be pursued forthwith.

Funeral Director typically directs the operations of the funeral. Makes sure the funeral is running smoothly as it can and takes care of any problems that might arise. They are sorta the leader in charge before, during, and after a funeral. Typically they are viewed as THE person that repersents the funeral home. During the funeral.

Mortician is behind the scenes person typically you will never see a mortician at a funeral itself or if they are they typically do not make themselfs very well known. Their job bascially is to beautify the deceased. This includes dressing the deceased and putting on makeup. Makeup is applied to both a male deceased or female deceased. This is to help improve skin color on the deceased. Typically clothing is picked out by the family and the mortician then dress's the deceasesd with it. Some family's require hair to be curled for female deceased and for male deceased there hair neatly comb. Perfumes may or may not be added on the deceased. It has always been my view that morticians try to make the deceased look like there sleeping then actually looking dead. This provides the family with some deal of comfort during a trying time.

In small funeral homes often the funeral directors acts as a mortician as well.
A funeral director is a person who arranges for funerals to take place, and a coroner is a person who examines dead bodies in order to determine the cause of death. There is relatively little similarity between the two, although they both deal with corpses.

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At a Jewish funeral home or synagogue or at the graveside.

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Forest Lawn is a memorial park and funeral home that allows people to pre-pay for a funeral package. There are many options on their company website.

This would depend on if the bloating was due to internal gas or water. In a case of internal gas when pressure inside the stomach causes the deceased's stomach to swell up, a mortician or funeral director, will relieve the body of the stress by making an incision into the stomach to release the case. This is normally achieved, by incision three finger lengths down from the middle of the breast bone. In the case of bloating by water, other than remove excess water from the deceased, there is not much more that can be done apart from embalming, were the visual affects of bloating are slightly decreased.

It is called a church truck.

The Funeral Home they used for Hector Lavoe's Funeral was the Frank E. Campbell Funeral Home in Manhattan. The same one used for Celia Cruz.

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The former Marsellus Casket Company was renown as the leading hardwood casket manufacturer in the US. Marsellus caskets were regarded as the finest - and most expensive - hardwood caskets in America.

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Any person can do so, even the funeral director but it is normally a minister of religion.

Harriet Quimby"s funeral was held in New York at the even-then famous Frank E. Campbell funeral home ( then located in a different part of town) in July of l9l2. If that is the Harriet you are referring to.

In Scotland when a person dies their death should be registered with the registrar of Births and Deaths. They will issue an Order of Burial or cremation which is a green form. This can then be given to the Funeral Director or sent to the Crematorium.

The statutory forms for cremation are numbered 1-10 and these can be obtained from either the funeral director or crematorium.

Form 1 - application for cremation to be filled in by next of kin.

Form 4 - completed by the doctor looking after deceased and completed the Medical Certificate of Cause of Death.

Form 5 - completed by a doctor not looking after deceased.

There is a fee charged for these.

Form 6 - certificate issued by the coroner if there has been a post mortem.

Form 10- authorisation of the cremation by an independent doctor at the crematorium.

In Scotland for a cremation the Certificate of Registration of Death, issued by the Registrar will also need to be provided. In addition to the application for cremation and two cremation certificates signed by two doctors as above a third crematorium certificate is required signed by the medical referee at the crematorium.