At an open casket funeral for a clown do you have to turn a crank and it pops open?
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Do the ballons have those little slips of paper in them?\nWho is going to retreive the papers to see what prizes we win?\nWould there be cotton candy and caramel apples? \nWho would be officiating?\n\nI know! \nDUBYA!!!!
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The next of kin usually has to pay...........I would talk to a mortuary (funeral home) and talk to them about payment plans, and inexpensive means of burial or cremation. As for a ceremony, there is nothing in the rule books that say you can't have it at home. I would ask the funeral director first and find out for sure....good luck
858288
you should watch a cemetery for a few days, When someone dies the ground workers dig the hole the night before the person who hole it is gets buried. Wait until night time, bring body and shovel. Dig the hole deeper, put your dead body in, cover up. The next day they will put the other dead person's casket over it. NO WORRIES!:)
103538
To the morgue or funeral home?
50613
Refrigeration and Embalming can preserve dead animals (or humans) for long periods.\n\nMummification or taxidermy can preserve them for much longer.\n\nI doubt you are going to your Mum's funeral, though.
1024706
I went to a funeral service for a man who was cremated once.  They had the urn on a table with a nice photograph of him with it.  It was a lot like a regular funeral.
533339
die or fake dead ,so you could jump out the casket and scare the hell outta them,although you first have to get them there.wellllll c-ya
371962
you have to pop the starter
1186004
Leave it on during a funeral service, have it ring, playing some awful ungodly song,answer it, and continue to talk during the service.
1146100
They don't anymore, they lock the casket now indstead. But both are to ward off grave robbers and stuff. When my dad and grandmom both died, the caretaker waited until we (well my mom and sis, I needed to leave the room) were the only ones left, and then locked it with a special key that can't unlock the casket once it's locked. That way we knew that no one was going to open the casket afterwards and steal jewelry or anything. I'm more confused about why they burry the body in a 2 inch thick cement vault and then cement the lid shut after they put the casket in it. I would think the fancy locks and thick plastic casket would be enough to ward off grave robbers......
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To close the eye the muscles must contract. to open they have to flex ( relax ). In most cases the muscle relaxes to the open position. It can be forced closed during the embalming process and usually stay shut, as tissue remains, in the final fixture as the chemicals cure the body. Extremeties have more muscle mass, so they tend to remain in the found position at time of death.
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In that one minute, you are supposed to honor the deceased.  Some people sit in quiet reflection, others pray.  It's just a way of honoring and remembering the person who passed.  Similar to ringing church bells at a funeral or lighting candles at a vigil.
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It may take several extra hours before your body is given to the funeral home/whatever (while the donation surgery is being arranged).\n\nA very small inconvenience compared to the lives you'll be saving.
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No. So when you die, ensure you do it in a manner which is most likely to amuse onlookers. Otherwise your death will have been in vain.
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it's a funeral for carnies.\n\nYou know, they have small hands. Smell like cabagge.
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yes, and i donate bloond too. when i die i think they will take any parts that are useable. they can have any thing they want i will not need it where i am going(hevean). when my cousion died on oct 11 they took his eyes, and bones . they most likly took other things too. i guess you could tell his bones were taken because if you tuched him he would of felt soft.
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Embalming as practiced in the funeral homes of the Western World uses several steps. Modern embalming techniques are not the result of a single practitioner, but rather the accumulation of many decades, even centuries, of research, trial and error and invention. A standardized version follows below but variation on techniques is very common.\n\nThe first thing an embalmer should do is verify the identity of the deceased (normally via wrist or leg tags) and perform basic tests for signs of death, such as clouded-over corneas, lividity, and rigor mortis. While people awakening on the mortuary table is largely the province of horror fiction and urban myth, testing for death is still a final additional precaution. Any clothing on the corpse is removed and set aside; jewelry, also, is inventoried. A modesty cloth is then placed over the deceased's genitalia for dignity. Following this the corpse is washed in disinfecting and germicidal solutions, shaved, and groomed. The embalmer bends, flexes and massages the arms and legs to relieve rigor mortis. The eyes are closed and kept closed with an eyecap that keeps them shut and in the proper expression. The mouth may be closed via suturing with a needle and ligature, using an adhesive, wire or a needle injector, a specialised device most commonly utilised in North America and unique to mortuary practise. Care is taken to make the expression look as relaxed and natural as possible and ideally a recent photograph of the deceased while still living is used as a template. The process of closing the mouth, eyes, shaving etc is collectively known as setting the features.\n\nThe actual embalming process usually involves four parts:\n\nArterial embalming, which involves the injection of embalming chemicals into the blood vessels, usually via the right common carotid artery. Blood is displaced from the right jugular vein. The embalming solution is injected through a mechanical pump and the embalmer massages the corpse to ensure a proper distribution of the embalming fluid. In case of poor circulation, other injection points are used. \nCavity embalming, the suction of the internal fluids of the corpse and the injection of embalming chemicals into body cavities, using an aspirator and trocar. The embalmer makes a small incision just above the navel and pushes the trocar in the chest and stomach cavities to puncture the hollow organs and aspirate their contents. He then fills the cavities with concentrated chemicals that contain formaldehyde. The incision is either sutured closed or a "trocar button" is screwed into place. \nHypodermic embalming, the injection of embalming chemicals under the skin as needed. \nSurface embalming, which supplements the other methods, especially for visible, injured body parts. \nMost good embalmings are completed in two or three hours, although an easy case may take less and complicated cases can take days.