Sentences with phrase «own funeral»

With that, we won't have to worry about awkward situations such as that time a bot wished me a «fantastic» day after I shopped for funeral floral arrangements.

LAS VEGAS (Reuters)- The company stacked brochures in funeral parlors around Sin City.

In Oklahoma, two funeral home owners invested $ 650,000 in a startup body broker firm.

The funeral homes provide brokers access to potential donors.

According to the National Funeral Directors Association, the median price is about $ 7,300.

But such relationships raise potential conflicts of interest by creating an incentive for funeral homes to encourage grieving relatives to consider body donation, sometimes without fully understanding what might happen to the remains.

Thus, in my example above, the chatbot that responded to me would not only grasp that I'm shopping for a funeral arrangement and offer condolences.

Basic service for the funeral director and staff, pickup of body, embalming, other preparation of body, casket, funeral memorial service, graveside service, including staff and equipment, hearse.

Looking at funerals as an event to celebrate an individual's life, Earp said customers want an «area where they can spend two or three hours sort of having champagne and canapes as opposed to having a cup of tea and a rich tea biscuit.»

Because it's expensive to have a funeral.

Partnerships between body brokers and funeral homes can sometimes yield sizeable businesses.

The only person charged in the incident was Gary Derischebourg, a funeral home employee who said his duties included helping prepare body parts for Collazo.

Many policies cover funeral costs, and they can also work as a bridge in case a spouse dies and there's a need to adjust to a reduced income level.

«Some funeral home directors are saying, «Cremation isn't paying the bills anymore, so let me see if I can help people harvest body parts,»» said Steve Palmer, an Arizona mortician who serves on the National Funeral Directors Association's policy board.

Given the «very low barriers to entry» resulting in intense competition in the funeral services industry, Earp stressed the need for InvoCare to stay ahead by providing the highest levels of customer service and upgrading its facilities and product offerings.

Both the broker, Southern Nevada Donor Services, and the funeral home, Valley Cremation and Burial, were struggling financially.

Buari slows down to let a funeral procession pass on the right.

The 2015 incident outside Las Vegas involving the frozen torso was also the product of a partnership between a body broker and a funeral home.

Once an event that most would have left in the care of others, funerals are increasingly being planned ahead of time.

«Darin and I felt like we had, through our funeral home ties, the ability, if we wanted, to encourage donors,» Ezzell said in an interview.

Reuters identified 62 funeral operators that have struck mutually beneficial business arrangements with brokers.

Having the chatbot from which I ordered funeral flowers solemnly wish me condolences is just the tip of the iceberg.

The entrepreneur has not returned home since she left originally — not even for her grandmother's funeral last year.

Body brokers also have become intertwined with the American funeral industry.

The company, Southern Nevada Donor Services, offered grieving families a way to eliminate expensive funeral costs: free cremation in exchange for donating a loved one's body to «advance medical studies.»

Losing a loved one usually means that there will be funeral costs, which can easily exceed 5,000 dollars.

Many have drained their savings paying for a loved one's medical treatment and can't afford a traditional funeral.

This would have been friendly and pleasing, had I not spent the previous 15 minutes browsing funeral flower arrangements.

At the funeral the widow related the experience to her friends and family.

Another example: White Lady Funerals in which the typical dour - faced director in a suit is replaced by a kindly females dressed all in white.

One such business is Ann Arbor, Michigan - based Nie Family Funeral Home & Cremation Service, which added the option in the late 1990s.

But a funny thing happened on the way to Lite's funeral.

The funeral industry in WA is increasingly dominated by a handful of big players, including two listed companies that hold more than 50 per cent of the market after buying some of the state's oldest operators.

Prince William, left, and Prince Harry, the sons of Diana, Princess of Wales, bow their heads as their mother's coffin is taken out of Westminster Abbey Saturday Sept. 6, 1997 following her funeral service.

The CEO of publicly traded funeral services company InvoCare talks about changing customer demands.»

That moment when you're bee - bopping along on FB, and you come across Funeral Potatoes.

Funeral potatoes are what they sound like — the dish originally comes from the Mormon tradition of bringing the well - liked comfort food to people at gatherings after a funeral.

The dish is popular in the South and the Midwest, according to Today.com, and a recipe for funeral potatoes can be found in the Mormon Relief Society Cookbooks dating back to the 20th century.

As a student, he was active in the Civil Rights movement and served as an usher at the funeral of Martin Luther King, Jr..

At Conrad's request there has been no funeral, but with his blessing we will celebrate his inspiring life on what would have been his 67th birthday August 19 at the UWA Dolphin Theatre at 3.30 pm.

Currently there are job - related Web sites catering to restaurant workers (www.starchefs.com), truck drivers (www.truckers.com), and funeral directors (www.funeralnet.com), to name a few.

A few days after Dave's funeral, Sheryl started to journal; and after four or five months she had written over 100,000 words.

For example, he captured images of playing miniature golf with friends, walking up to a stage to deliver a TED talk, and paying his final respects at a funeral.

I had outgrown sheepishly stealing gear from everyone else's tackle box, so I placed an order and a box from Cabela's was waiting on my desk when I returned from the funeral.

Instead, what my boss saw was a black woman who had made a dubious request for time off to attend a distant relative's funeral and was now sitting next to a box of things he couldn't possibly imagine her needing.

Augason Farms, the company that manufactures the funeral potatoes, seems to have a good sense of humor about its now - trending product: The back of its funeral potatoes pouch reads «potatoes to die for.»

I wandered over to my boss's cubicle to tell him what had happened and ask if I could leave early and take a few days off to attend the funeral.

A private family funeral is planned, followed by a memorial service to be announced by the Desmarais family.

Some are in Rochester, New York, for the funeral Friday of longtime Rep. Louise Slaughter, who died last week.

She told me to send my assistant to the funeral and that I had better be at her wedding.