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	<title>Funeral Homes &#38; Directors</title>
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	<description>Offers funeral planning advice for a family's executor. Features comparative models for interment services in the United States.</description>
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		<title>Military Funerals &#8211; Interment Services; Department of Veteran Affairs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ In 1862, President Lincoln signed into law legislation authorizing the establishment of national cemeteries and&#8230;That the President of the United States shall have power, whenever in his opinion it shall be expedient, to purchase cemetery grounds and cause them to be securely enclosed, to be used as a national cemetery for the soldiers who [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.funerals-usa.com/2008/07/military-interments-department-of-veteran-affairs/</link>
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		<title>Law of Scattering Cremated Human Remains; Spreading Ashes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ First, the remains of a cremated body are not &#8220;ashes,&#8221; as the term is commonly referred to. The remains are bone fragments that, can be too large to scatter if they have not been mechanically reduced. They do not immediately dissolve when scattered. They normally cannot be disbursed and blown away when scattered; so [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.funerals-usa.com/2008/07/scattering-of-cremated-human-remains-shes/</link>
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		<title>Burial at Sea of Human Remains</title>
		<description><![CDATA[According to federal regulations:

Sec. 229.1 Burial at sea.
(a) All persons subject to title I of the Act are hereby granted a general permit to transport human remains from the United States and all persons owning or operating a vessel or aircraft registered in the United States or flying the United States flag and all departments, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.funerals-usa.com/2008/07/burial-at-sea-of-human-remains/</link>
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		<title>Funerals: A Consumer Guide</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When a loved one dies, grieving family members and friends often are confronted with dozens of decisions about the funeral &#8211; all of which must be made quickly and often under great emotional duress. What kind of funeral should it be? What funeral provider should you use? Should you bury or cremate the body, or [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.funerals-usa.com/2008/06/funerals-a-consumer-guide/</link>
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		<title>Your Rights When Buying Funeral Goods &amp; Services</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Paying Final Respects
When a loved one dies, grieving family members and friends often are confronted with dozens of decisions about the funeral ­— all of which must be made quickly and often under great emotional stress.
What kind of funeral should it be? What funeral provider should you use? Should you bury or cremate the body, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.funerals-usa.com/2008/06/your-rights-when-buying-funeral-goods-services/</link>
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		<title>Grieving the Human Experience</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ We spend a good portion of our lives working diligently to acquire those things that make life rich and meaningful; friends, a wife or husband, children, a home, a job, material comforts, money (let&#8217;s face it), and security. What happens to us when we lose any of these persons or things which are so [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.funerals-usa.com/2008/06/grieving-the-human-experience/</link>
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		<title>Perpetual Care of Cremation Ashes, Urn &amp; Plots</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Administered by the cemetery interests, cremation has become just another way of making a buck, principally through the sale of the niche and urn plus &#8220;perpetual care&#8221; for the ashes. Cemetery men are most reluctant to relinquish the ashes for any other form of disposition; one told me rather plaintively, &#8220;If everyone wanted to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.funerals-usa.com/2008/06/perpetual-care-of-cremation-ashes-urn-amp-plots/</link>
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		<title>Cremation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
Cremation is not an end in itself, but the process which prepares the human remains for inurnment in a beautiful and everlasting memorial. &#8211; Chapel of the Chimes booklet, endorsed by Cremation Association of America
A common reaction of people who learn for the first time some of the facts and figures connected with the American [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.funerals-usa.com/2008/06/cremation/</link>
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		<title>Funeral Costs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ In 1960, Americans spent, according to the only available government estimate, $1.6 billion on funerals, setting thereby a new national and world record. The $1.6 billion is, as we shall see, only a portion of what was actually spent on what the death industry calls &#8220;the care and memorialization of the dead.&#8221; Even this [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.funerals-usa.com/2008/06/funeral-costs/</link>
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		<title>Funerals &amp; Funeral Directors</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Many relatives ask us about assistance in funeral arrangements especially when a death has been unexpected and the family are left in utter shock and denial, or in a stage of confusion and anger. Many patients request that their bodies be donated to medical schools or they ask for cremation, to the dismay of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.funerals-usa.com/2008/06/funerals-funeral-directors/</link>
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