But when the body of Annie Mae Brown Mouton’s youngest child was released to the family, the funeral director, stunned at ...

His child had been stillborn ... There was no possibility of an open casket funeral. “No one will see,” he told me. “They’re going to put a decomposing body in a body bag in there.” ...

Emmett Till’s mother declined an offer from the mortician to “touch up” her son’s body, and she made the decision to have an open casket funeral. “I think everybody needed to know what ...

September 3, 1955 Emmett Till's body is taken to Chicago's Roberts Temple Church of God for viewing and funeral services. Emmett's mother decides to have an open casket funeral. Thousands of ...

Even this partial figure, if averaged out among the number of deaths, would amount to the astonishing sum of $942 for the funeral of every man, woman, child ... an open-casket funeral, in which ...

Burr asks. He also discusses his 11-year relationship with his wife and attending a friend's open casket funeral. "I don't get it," Burr complains. "It's like you told me he was dead. I believed you." ...

Hundreds of workers and young people turned out for the funeral of nine-year-old Darnell ... just a few feet away from the open caskets of the young son and daughter she lost.