The classic burial service, casket and all, will run several times this amount.

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Cremation or burial, open casket, closed casket or no casket, private services or public services, low-cost approach or more costly approach, above ground or below ground or indoor or outdoor final resting place were just a few of the important decisions.

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The casket was lowered into a grave and covered with stone slabs, as wailing crowds jostled around the burial site.

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Litvinenko's coffin, a dark-stained Jacobean oak Garratt casket, was due to be driven around the perimeter of the cemetery before being laid to rest at the burial site in a non-denominational service, the UK's Press Association reported.

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