But everyone should think through their burial and funeral wishes and properly document them.
Whether you want to pursue cryogenic freezing or a more traditional burial and funeral plan, visit a good estate planning lawyer to properly safeguard your final wishes.
In most states, the law requires families to follow properly-recorded written burial and funeral instructions of the person who passed, or at least allows the deceased person to name an agent in writing to carry out those wishes.
That afternoon the body will be returned to California for the private funeral and burial planned for sunset.
The state funeral and burial will be preceded by five days of observances beginning Monday with a private family service at the library.
People who want to use more creative or controversial funeral or burial methods should be sure to record those wishes sooner rather than later.
The practice of pooling resources this way dates as early as Roman times when people formed burial clubs to pay funeral and living expenses for member families.
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Funeral and burial service companies have, also, the potential for substantial appreciation, especially as they ride on favorable demographics, the aging of baby-boomers, who unfortunately would be offered these services irrespective of the state of the economy.
Ms. ROBERTS: We don't have that closure of, you know, when somebody normally dies, and you have the funeral and the burial.
She contacted Worcester police "after receiving an offer of a burial plot from the administration of the Islamic Funeral Services of Virginia, " the society said.
He had preferred an intimate burial at the small brandy-making town to a state funeral in Paris.
The initial discovery of the remains provoked much debate in Britain as to what would happen with the body, if it were proven to be that of Richard III, with many calling for a state funeral at Westminster Abbey, and others backing a burial in York Minster, in keeping with the king's heritage as a member of the House of York.
The funeral at Teviot Church in Hawick, followed by a burial at the town's Wellogate Cemetery, was for family, friends and the local community.
Most had urged Egypt to host the funeral because they would not be able to attend the burial in Ramallah because they would have to travel through Israel and only two Arab nations, Egypt and Jordan, have peace treaties with Israel.
Traditional funeral customs often allow for a more extended period between death and burial, so family and friends may have more opportunity to visit and pay their respects.
On March 17th he had his wish, or most of it: a state funeral for all the poilus at Les Invalides, and then a simple family burial.
Funeral service workers, who perform the grim task of finding and conserving body parts for burial, were left to sift through the detritus which remained, working into the night with flashlights and rubber gloves.
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Former Biafran fighters at the funeral seemed happy with the active role played by the army and the federal government during the burial, our reporter says.
President Barack Obama is expected to address a funeral Mass for Mr Kennedy at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Basilica in Boston on Saturday, before his burial that evening.
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