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...Adjacent is Acadia National Cemetery, one of only two national cemeteries in Maine....
...“The grieving and mourning when you haven’t actually been to the grave, it enhances the air of surrealness. Everything’s magnified; when are we going to go to the cemetery, who knows?...
...“Knock on wood, we haven’t had to use it yet,” she said....
...The funeral home said the idea was to make it convenient for seniors and disabled people to attend funerals....
...If the deal is approved in its proposed form, SCI would own 2,000 funeral homes and cemeteries and generate $3bn a year in revenues, according to company documents....
...Customers can pay upfront for a funeral and cemetery plot they will need down the road....
...publisher Time Inc....
...The idea for the Whole Earth Catalog came to Brand as he was “flying back from Illinois from my father’s funeral”....
...While dying is mostly not discretionary, funeral expenses are. Past recessions show that the bereaved tend not to economise....
...’s homes....
...Shares of Stewart Enterprises, which owns funeral homes and cemeteries, sank 29% to $5 per share after larger competitor Service Corporation withdrew an $11 per-share takeover bid valued at $1bn....
...“Now I can go on holiday and say I am from Lockerbie and people haven’t heard of it. That didn’t happen a few years ago....
...“You haven’t been to anything like what we are going to do.”...
...News that Service, the biggest US owner of funeral homes and cemeteries, had agreed to buy Alderwoods, the industry’s number two, for $856m helped drive up shares in both companies....
...So far they haven’t been sued once....
...But that morning he had gone to a relative’s funeral home, a block from the heart of the violence....
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