Less people are being embalmed in toxic fluids while buried in caskets Neoprene caskets.
It draped the caskets of men I served with and friends I grew up with.
Grieving mothers shaped from marble lay prostrate on the lids of stone caskets.
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I've traveled to Dover to meet the flag-draped caskets of 18 Americans returning home to their final resting place.
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More than 200 caskets were lined up at the funeral, draped with flowers.
Most were bodies in coffins, with a small number of ashes in caskets.
And then a few days later, I was there greeting the caskets coming into Andrews Air Force Base and grieving with the families.
Members of the Dalton gang, laid out in caskets after the deadly failure of their bank robbery in Coffeyville, Kansas, still look oddly thrilling.
In recent years it has adopted a new strategy, cutting prices for caskets and urns but concentrating on selling bundles of services, says David Hass, a managing director.
And they wailed at Nairobi City mortuary as the caskets of their loved ones and friends were hoisted on to trucks to be driven to the venue of the funeral prayer service.
You hear the creak of caskets opening, the tap of tiny feet as cherubs dance excitedly, and the clanking of cast-iron doors as angels go about their business on narrow lanes lined with weeping widows.
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Bush has on only two or three occasions met with the families of fallen servicemen and women, most recently at Fort Carson, Colorado, and he has not attended funerals or greeted caskets returning from Iraq.
In flag-draped caskets coming home at Dover.
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The flow seems entirely natural, even if hundreds of the items on view (among them tapestries, jewels, armour, bubbling fountains, embroidered copes, decorated caskets and ivories such as the Symmachi panel, pictured) are more notable for their aesthetic appeal than for their contribution to an historical narrative.
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But Robert Florence of Historic New Orleans Walking Tours Inc. believes that the facts surrounding the city's burial sites -- which include family tombs that hold generations of remains and sit above ground, preventing caskets from floating away during floods -- are as good as fiction.
In Louisiana, for example, a group of monks is fighting back against state requirements that they must obtain a funeral home director's license to sell caskets, a license that must be obtained from a board where nine of the 10 sitting members are from the state's largest funeral homes.
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