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...
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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...
Some coffins may also be placed in above-ground or simply underground tombs at the bottom of the mausoleum. In a sarcophagus mausoleum, a crane can temporarily remove the roof or wall to place the...
Since the remains of the dead are not buried in the mausoleum, it would be more correct to say that the body is buried, not buried. Mausoleum burial is considered an alternative to traditional...
A mausoleum crypt is a room within a mausoleum that is used to store the remains of a tomb. In the mausoleum-sarcophagus, the tomb is buried in an underground reinforced concrete structure, with only...