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NEWS ABOUT: casket

casket stories: 7 news summaries

 Wal-Mart Enters 
 Coffin Biz 

Funeral homes face competition from discount caskets

Oct 30, 09 2:08 AM CDT
(Newser) - America's leading big-box store is now also a pine box store. Wal-Mart has started selling a range of discount coffins on its website and plans to expand its death products to include pet urns and memorial jewelry. Prices start at just $895 for a steel coffin. Funeral home owners say... More »

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coffin • casket • retail sales • Wal-Mart • funeral home

JACKSON ROUNDUP

 Questions Linger 
 in Wake of Memorial 

How much it will cost? Where is his body? And what caused his death?

Jul 8, 09 8:44 AM CDT
(Newser) - Fans are donating to the city of Los Angeles in an effort to defray the cost of Michael Jackson’s memorial, E! reports. The final total is still in the works, and some famous friends and corporate sponsors are rumored to have donated generously. More from the aftermath:
  • Los
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entertainment • casket • celebrity • memorial • Michael Jackson • cause of death • celebrity death • Forest Lawn cemetery



 Jackson May 
 Be on View in 
 Glass Coffin 

Funeral promises to be extravagant event

Jun 30, 09 10:53 AM CDT
(Newser) - Michael Jackson’s funeral could be as lavish as one of his concerts. His body will reportedly be transported in a horse-drawn carriage, and he could be on view in a glass coffin. “The glass casket idea would create so much public interest it would take time to organize,... More »

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entertainment • coffin • casket • celebrity • death • funeral • Michael Jackson • burial • Jehovah's Witness • Katherine Jackson • Joe Jackson

 Final 'Green' Frontier: 
 Cemeteries 

Increasingly popular embalming- and casket-free option freaked locals out

Jan 2, 09 11:53 AM CST
(Newser) - As the green movement contemplates the afterlife, more funeral directors are seeing demand for a sendoff without the embalming and sturdy coffins of traditional burials, the Wall Street Journal reports. Natural burials won't necessarily put funeral directors out of business: Yes, simple shrouds are available, but so is a $300... More »

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coffin • casket • green products • burial • funeral home • cemetery

Fans Get Prime Seats for Eternal Extra Innings

Logo coffins, urns make case for 'long-term' devotees of Sox, others

Dec 1, 08 12:35 PM CST
(Newser) - Die-hard baseball fans can now continue showing their team pride even in the afterlife. A Boston-area funeral home is offering its first-ever Red Sox casket, emblazoned with the team’s logo and accented with baseball-bat-type wood. “It's really a beautiful thing,” the funeral-home director, a Sox fan himself,... More »

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MLB • Boston Red Sox • coffin • casket • New York Yankees • branding • funeral home

As Cremations Increase, So 
Do Options

Lower cost, greater personalization
appeal to families

Sep 7, 08 2:00 PM CDT
(Newser) - The cremation industry is booming, a reflection of tighter economic times and a push from consumers for more creative funeral options, reports the Washington Post. Cremations, cheaper than traditional burial, rose 7% nationwide in the past 5 years and made up 35% of the funeral market last year. Funeral homes... More »

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cremation • casket • business • death • burial • funeral home

Death Be Not Proud
(At a Discount)

Apr 12, 07 4:47 PM CDT
(Newser) - What does it say about us, Mark Morford asks, that wandering the aisles at Costco in Palm Desert, CA, we come upon not only drums of olive oil and eighty-packs of frozen cream puffs, but over there, right next to the tires and the lawn furniture and right behind the... More »

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shopping • Costco • coffin • casket • consumer • death

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