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2. 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 ...

3. Service Corporation International - Wikipedia

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   Service Corporation International is an American provider of funeral goods and services as well as cemetery property and services. It is headquartered in Neartown, Houston, Texas, and operates secondary corporate offices in Jefferson, Louisiana (near New Orleans). [5] [6] SCI operates more than 1500 funeral homes and 400 cemeteries.

4. Cremation - Wikipedia

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   Cremation is a method of final disposition of a dead body through burning. Cremation may serve as a funeral or post-funeral rite and as an alternative to burial. In some countries, including India and Nepal, cremation on an open-air pyre is an ancient tradition. Starting in the 19th century, cremation was introduced or reintroduced into other ...

5. Connelly Foundation - Wikipedia

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   The Connelly Foundation. The Connelly Foundation is a Philadelphia philanthropic organization based in West Conshohocken, Pennsylvania. The organization was founded in 1955 by businessman and entrepreneur John F. Connelly. Connelly headed the foundation until his death in 1990, [3] and his wife Josephine led until her death in 1999.

6. Inside Jennifer Connelly’s Quarantine Life in Vermont ... - AOL

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   Jennifer Connelly is losing track of time as she and her husband, Paul Bettany, remain in Vermont with their family amid the coronavirus pandemic. “I can’t remember if it’s three weeks or ...

7. Military funerals in the United States - Wikipedia

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   A military funeral in the United States is a memorial or burial rite conducted by the United States Armed Forces for a Soldier, Marine, Sailor, Airman, Guardian or Coast Guardsman who died in battle, a veteran, or other prominent military figures or a president. A military funeral may feature guards of honor, the firing of volley shots as a ...

8. Whatcom County woman who survived 2004 Indian Ocean ... - AOL

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   Monica Connelly survived the Indian Ocean Tsunami at age 13 in 2004. 19 years later, in 2023, she published a memoir about her experience. She managed to reach the surface but passed out from ...

9. Japanese funeral - Wikipedia

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   The majority of funerals ( 葬儀, sōgi or 葬式, sōshiki) in Japan include a wake, the cremation of the deceased, a burial in a family grave, and a periodic memorial service. According to 2007 statistics, 99.81% of deceased Japanese are cremated. [1] Other practices in Japan include Shinto funerals and the Ryukyuan people ’s indigenous ...