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

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From there, it was flown to Al-Arish airport, just south of the Egypt-Israel border, where it was ferried to Ramallah via helicopter for the burial service.

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The burial service at dusk followed a eulogy by President Barack Obama in Massachusetts, a brief prayer service outside the U.S. Capitol and a procession through the crowd-lined street of Washington's streets.

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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.

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Today let us all find resolution and peace as we give Vicky her Christian service and burial in order that you can then move on in your lives, knowing that one day you will see Vicky again in God's eternal kingdom of love.

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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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Lawrence, who served as ambassador to Switzerland until his death in 1996, received a waiver for burial at Arlington in part because of his claim to have been wounded during service in the Merchant Marine in 1945.

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The state funeral and burial will be preceded by five days of observances beginning Monday with a private family service at the library.

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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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The Bishop of Leicester, the Rt Rev Tim Stevens, said details for a possible funeral service would need to be carefully worked out but he felt Leicester Cathedral were the logical choice for the burial.

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