funeral

But most of the rest of what we think of as a funeral is just a bundle of arbitrary practices -- some traditional, others invented and popularized by hospitals and funeral homes who profit from them.

There are many good reasons why it's a good idea to use the services funeral homes provide.

For example, if a loved one dies, will your book club friends help you organize the funeral (or even attend)?

They said they had waited for 3 hours and were on their way to a funeral.

Over here, funeral homes do not go to heroic lengths in order to cosmetically make a dead body appear lifelike again.

Here in Panama we have the traditional catholic funeral rituals (which are rarely practiced by the urban population).

His daughters had to fly half the world to get to the funeral.

I hate to be overly facetious here, but $100k would pay for one hell of a funeral.

Attend an 80 year old person's funeral and talk to the surviving spouse.

Much as science advances one funeral at a time, I sometimes think working practices advance one bankruptcy at a time.

Next we end the tangential story, which introduces the third data point, at it's funeral.

They killed their public product today, the funeral's in three months.

The article mentions that a funeral director mistyped a SSN, so the SSA does receive bad information from "trusted" sources.

The swift transition from being notorious for "Dr.'s handwriting" to being sought after to fill out wedding and funeral cards was startling.

When I didn't want to pre-pay for my funeral, it asked my "Why not" with a free-form text field for my reply, which I thought was interesting.

I think he meant more along the lines of "having a wedding" or "having a funeral" than "sacrificing a cow" (but pardon my ignorance of Catholic rituals).