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  2. Matthews Aurora Funeral Solutions - Wikipedia

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    Matthews Aurora Funeral Solutions (formerly the Aurora Casket Company) is one of the largest manufacturers of caskets and funerary urns in the United States, selling over 38% of the country's caskets as of 2005. The Aurora, Indiana –based company is a subsidiary of Pittsburgh-based Matthews International. The company makes both wooden and ...

  3. Natural burial - Wikipedia

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    The Green Burial Council also offers information on the types of coffins, urns, and embalming tools that would fall under the eco-friendly category [49] and be available for North American consumers. The Green Burial Society of Canada [ 50 ] was founded in 2013 with the goal to ensure standards of certification are set for green burial ...

  4. Safety coffin - Wikipedia

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    Safety coffin. Taberger's Safety Coffin employed a bell as a signaling device, for anybody buried alive. A safety coffin or security coffin is a coffin fitted with a mechanism to prevent premature burial or allow the occupant to signal that they have been buried alive. A large number of designs for safety coffins were patented during the 18th ...

  5. Historic Cemeteries of New Orleans - Wikipedia

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    If a body or coffin is placed in an in-ground tomb in New Orleans, there is risk of it being water-logged or even displaced from the ground. For this reason, the people of New Orleans have generally used above-ground tombs. Over the years as designs have evolved, these tombs have become architecturally, culturally, and historically distinct. [3]

  6. Lincoln Tomb - Wikipedia

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    1865 illustration of Lincoln burial (Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper) The receiving vault (foreground) and the tomb (background)The Lincoln Tomb is the final resting place of Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States; his wife Mary Todd Lincoln; and three of their four sons: Edward, William, and Thomas.

  7. 21 new coffins found in search for Tulsa Massacre victims - AOL

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    The search for remains of victims of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre has turned up 21 additional coffins in unmarked graves in the city’s Oaklawn Cemetery, officials said. Seventeen adult-size ...

  8. Burial vault (enclosure) - Wikipedia

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    Burial vault (enclosure) A burial vault (also known as a burial liner, grave vault, and grave liner) is a container, formerly made of wood or brick but more often today made of metal or concrete, that encloses a coffin to help prevent a grave from sinking. Wooden coffins (or caskets) decompose, and often the weight of earth on top of the coffin ...

  9. Military funerals in the United States - Wikipedia

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    A military funeral in the United States is a memorial or burial rite conducted by the United States Armed Forces for a Soldier, Marine, Sailor, Airman, Guardian or Coast Guardsman who died in battle, a veteran, or other prominent military figures or a president. A military funeral may feature guards of honor, the firing of volley shots as a ...

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