A religious service conducted in memory of the deceased without the remains being present. ROOM A room in the funeral home set aside for the clergyman wherein he can robe and make any last minute preparations for the funeral service. A place to where bodies found dead are removed and exposed pending identification by relatives. A hollowed space in a wall made especially for placing urns containing cremains. A notice of the death of a person, particularly a newspaper notice, containing a biographical sketch.
Pallbearers can be close friends and relatives of the deceased.
An area of ground in a cemetery . It usually contains two or more graves. An operating table located in the preparation room upon which the body is dressed or prepared for embalming. It is also the vehicle movement of the funeral from the place where the funeral service was conducted to the cemetery. The decomposition of the body upon death.