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  2. Funeral Rule - Wikipedia

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    The Funeral Rule defines and provides parameters in the following key subject areas: [2] Definition of a General Price List, or GPL; Specific disclosures must be provided in writing to the consumer regarding embalming, alternative containers for direct cremation, the basic service fee, the Casket Price List and the Outer Burial Container Price List

  3. Catafalque - Wikipedia

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    A catafalque is a raised bier, box, or similar platform, often movable, that is used to support the casket, coffin, or body of a dead person during a Christian funeral or memorial service. [1] Following a Roman Catholic Requiem Mass , a catafalque may be used to stand in place of the body at the absolution of the dead or used during Masses of ...

  4. Nōkanshi - Wikipedia

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    The body is then put on dry ice in a casket, along with personal possessions and items necessary for the trip to the afterlife. [3] Despite the importance of death rituals, in traditional Japanese culture the subject is considered unclean as everything related to death is thought to be a source of kegare (defilement).

  5. Coffin - Wikipedia

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    A distinction is commonly drawn between "coffins" and "caskets", using "coffin" to refer to a tapered hexagonal or octagonal (also considered to be anthropoidal in shape) box and "casket" to refer to a rectangular box, often with a split lid used for viewing the deceased as seen in the picture. [2]

  6. She amputated her arm due to a rare cancer. Her open-casket ...

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    In late October, Eldiara Doucette found out she only had five days left with her arm. The 22-year-old's synovial sarcoma − a rare cancer that affects soft tissue − had returned. Her hospital's ...

  7. Titan Casket - Wikipedia

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    Titan Casket was founded in 2016 as a vendor on Amazon by Scott Ginsberg. In 2018, he reached out to co-founders, Joshua Siegel and Elizabeth Siegel, and the three officially launched the company in January 2020. [3] In June 2022, Titan Casket raised $3.5 million in seed-round funding from Reformation Partners. [4] [5]

  8. Airbnb user fumes after company refuses to cancel booking ...

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    An enraged traveler claims Airbnb is refusing to refund and rebook her after she attempted to cancel a vacation rental near the danger zone of the Los Angeles wildfires.. The rental firm has ...

  9. Hospice, Inc. - The Huffington Post

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    It came about in part due to lobbying by a Methodist minister, Hugh Westbrook, who had started a nonprofit hospice a few years before in South Florida. Westbrook was one of the first to see the huge profit opportunity in hospice care, and over the next two decades would become the dominant figure in the industry.