casket
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That experience is due to come in handy, people around Brown say, now that the modern USW covers a spectrum of 850,000 cradle-to-grave workers from maternity nurses to casket makers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
Video footage showed mourners pushing and shoving each other to get close to the casket as it was carried by hand through the mausoleum's halls.
From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026
On Wednesday, Khamenei’s casket will be transported to Najaf and Karbala in Iraq, where Iran supports numerous armed groups, and where many among the Shia majority population regard Khamenei as a religious authority.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 3, 2026
Traditional leaders and some locals wanted to burn the compromised casket.
From Barron's ● May 24, 2026
I had canceled the arrangements with the funeral parlor and told them instead to prepare the casket for transport.
From "The Book of Unknown Americans" by Cristina Henríquez
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Funeral homes charge for embalming, caskets, vaults and funeral services.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 3, 2026
When Old Glory was planted on the moon in 1969, it had already draped the caskets of tens of thousands of soldiers who died in Vietnam.
From Salon ● Jan. 3, 2026
Indian authorities said an inscription on one of the caskets unearthed with the treasure confirmed the contents -- which include bone fragments -- as "relics of the Buddha".
From Barron's ● Jan. 3, 2026
Saeed and Tia were buried the day after they died, by Rihab’s father and uncles, in temporary wooden caskets in an unmarked grave in Dahieh.
From BBC ● Dec. 1, 2024
How the workers jumbled everything they found into five caskets and carted them off the island.
From "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy" by Gary D. Schmidt
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