The Funeral Industry promoted embalming and viewings as ways of showing the right amount of respect to a body, as well as establishing a clear identity for a body, to ensure that those viewing a body...
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A body at a funeral home can be stored briefly, embalmed, restored, decorated, dressed, or cremated. If you are going to have an event before your funeral, like viewings or a wake, or a casket-open...
Anne Rowan, a funeral director for Conley Funeral Home in Brockton, is among 500 funeral homes across the state holding hundreds of unclaimed cremations. The State holds hundreds of unclaimed...
American funeral homes are generally open seven days a week, allowing services to take place any day of the week. A viewing can sometimes take place in a family home, or during a specified time in a...
Embalming is a procedure performed by licensed funeral professionals which slows down the decomposition of the body following death by adding chemicals in place of the bodily fluids. Funeral...
Most families today opt for a more traditional burial in the ground and choose a headstone type as a marker for the grave. You can use a mausoleum, a free standing outside building with a tomb...
