He died Feb. 4 in Delaware, according to Haley Funeral Directors in the Detroit suburb of Southfield, Mich.

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He has identified at least one firm of funeral directors that would happily extract metal fillings from corpses.

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However, following concerns by funeral directors and councillors, the implementation of the new rates on 1 April has been postponed.

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States that demand that funeral directors must also qualify as embalmers, for example, have 24% fewer female funeral directors than those that don't.

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They're young, good-looking women in black and white uniforms, who help funeral directors with embalming and memorial services, and they've brought Liu a lot of attention.

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Darren Carpenter, who runs Bird's Funeral Directors, based in Fisher Street, Maidstone, says he had to ask grieving relatives to get out of his vehicles every time he approached the humps.

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Stegall, executive director of the state's Funeral Directors Association.

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"Funeral directors have done this for years, " Stefan said.

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Funeral directors told Australian media that the guidelines were insensitive to the needs of grieving relatives who wanted to celebrate the life of the deceased with a service including photographs, videos and the dead person's favourite music.

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Reason: Funeral home directors had invested the preneed proceeds in low-yielding certificates of deposit that failed to keep pace with inflation.

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