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  2. Funeral home - Wikipedia

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    Funeral homes arrange services in accordance with the wishes of surviving friends and family, whether immediate next of kin or an executor so named in a legal will. The funeral home often takes care of the necessary paperwork, permits, and other details, such as making arrangements with the cemetery, and providing obituaries to the news media.

  3. Frank E. Campbell Funeral Chapel - Wikipedia

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    The Frank E. Campbell Funeral Chapel is a funeral home located on Madison Avenue at 81st Street in Manhattan. Founded in 1898 as Frank E. Campbell Burial and Cremation Company, the company is now owned by Service Corporation International. Frank E. Campbell is known for handling many celebrity deaths and funerals including those of John Lennon ...

  4. State funerals in the United States - Wikipedia

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    President George H. W. Bush lying in state in the United States Capitol rotunda on December 3, 2018. In the United States, state funerals are the official funerary rites conducted by the federal government in the nation's capital, Washington, D.C., that are offered to a sitting or former president, a president-elect, high government officials and other civilians who have rendered distinguished ...

  5. Death care industry in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The death care industry in the United States includes companies and organizations that provide services related to death: funerals, cremation or burial, and memorials. This includes for example funeral homes, coffins, crematoria, cemeteries, and headstones. [1] [2] The death care industry within the U.S. consists mainly of small businesses, [3 ...

  6. Funeral director - Wikipedia

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    In 2003, 15 percent of corporately owned funeral homes in the US were owned by one of three corporations. The majority of morticians work in small, independent family-run funeral homes. The owner usually hires two or three other morticians to help them. Often, this hired help is in the family, perpetuating the family's ownership.

  7. List of largest funerals - Wikipedia

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    Funeral of Giuseppe Verdi: January 30, 1901 Italy: Milan: 10,000 (private ceremony) February 27, 1901: 300,000 (State funeral) Funeral of Sholem Aleichem: May 13, 1916 United States: New York City: at least 250,000: Funerals of Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht: June 13, 1919 Weimar Republic: Berlin: 200,000: Funeral of Michael Collins: August ...

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