Some funeral-industry professionals believe these online memorials and virtual grave sites provide a valuable service.
Someone had already notified the next of kin, and the funeral-home people were on the way.
One such company is the Loewen Group, the world's second-largest funeral-services company, which is based in Vancouver.
Rob said he was "honoured" to be a pall-bearer at his brother's funeral - but it was the worst day of his life.
You gather 200 friends and acquaintances in a room--the sort of people who attended your wedding or might attend your funeral--and you clink a glass.
One of the notes detailed the arrangements for his funeral - including a request to play the song I'm With You by chart star Avril Lavigne.
Crowds are expected to line the streets between the Palace of Westminster -- where her coffin will lie on the eve of the funeral -- and St.
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The state funeral - Ethiopia's first for a leader in more than 80 years - began in Meskel Square after a journey of about an hour-and-a-half from Mr Meles' official residence, the Grand National Palace.
The funeral -- officially ceremonial rather than a state occasion in a distinction invisible to all but the most pedantic royal watcher -- was the first for a former prime minister and war leader since Winston Churchill's body was borne along the same route a generation ago.
The Bereavement Register suggests that many people have discussed funeral music - and there have been some less than serious suggestions - including Going Underground and Take My Breath Away.
Service Corp. blamed its poor earnings in part on a lower-than-expected death rate, for example (see box), although Stewart executives note that it's the number of deaths, not the rate, that drives funeral sales-and deaths in the U.S. were up 1% last year.
Consolidation plays in a fragmented industry--funeral homes, say, or trash haulers--can look like growth engines even when the cash is running out.
In cases where the body is expected to remain embalmed for a long period -- rather than for a few weeks or months, as can happen if a funeral is delayed -- the concentration of formaldehyde will be increased.
The funeral of 32-year-old PC Bone will take place at the cathedral at 10:00 on Thursday.
The funeral home in Worcester -- about 40 miles west of downtown Boston -- eventually accepted the remains, and Tsarni worked with the funeral home on what to do next.
When the Montreal rock group The Arcade Fire released its first album, 2004's near-universally loved Funeral, the band became an overnight indie-rock titan.
Rather poignantly, the website on Tuesday still displayed a list of acts - Adam Ant, Funeral for a Friend and Bullet for My Valentine - who are slated to play at HMV's stores in the coming weeks.
At St Joseph Church in Medford, north-west of Boston, a private funeral was being held for 29-year-old restaurant worker Krystle Campbell, who was killed at the marathon finish line after going to watch the race with a friend.
Since then, the company has been busy buying up corner-shop funeral parlours and crematoria.
His photographs of the funeral ghats in Benares--unsettling, riveting, weirdly beautiful--were shown at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Hundreds of mourners have gathered for the funeral of an award-winning rose grower.
Rabin's body was brought to the cemetery in a slow-moving funeral procession.
It also made the continued delivery of high-quality funeral services difficult for both the staff and the other professionals involved, it said.
Festivities involve fireworks, singing, celebrations of masses, funeral wakes, alms-giving and feasts.
Howard-Price Funeral Home in North Palm Beach confirmed his death.
The Australian government had offered a state funeral for the much-loved TV presenter who died in a stingray attack on Monday, but the family chose a small, private ceremony instead.
The British Museum show includes Henry V's so-called funeral achievements, or armor and equipment, on loan for the first time from Westminster Abbey, where they were placed in the 15th century.
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