The coffins were aboard a Bulgarian-registered vehicle and were bound for a funeral director in west London.

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The doctor of a woman allegedly murdered by her funeral director husband said she had no history of mental health problems.

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Bernie Tiede (Jack Black), stout and soft-spoken, works as an assistant funeral director in the small town of Carthage, in East Texas.

NEWYORKER: Funny and Funnier

They were listening, instead, to John Murphy, our alcoholic funeral director.

NEWYORKER: Fjord of Killary

On Friday, a Massachusetts funeral director said the main suspect's older brother, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, had died from gunshot wounds and blunt trauma to his head and torso.

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All of which sounds sweet to the local funeral director (Bill Murray), who knows that there is money to be made in the wrapping up of a life.

NEWYORKER: Get Low

In Carthage, Texas, in 1996, Bernie Tiede (Jack Black), a young man with beautiful manners, works as an assistant funeral director and brings consolation and light to his small town.

NEWYORKER: Bernie

The BBC was unable to trace the funeral director.

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The council's new pricing structure was described as "grossly unfair" by one Camborne funeral director who said in a low income county like Cornwall, some families were struggling to afford the existing costs.

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Selling caskets without a funeral director's license.

FORBES: Boxed Out

But Worcester funeral home director Peter Stefan said despite the request, he doesn't think Russia will take Tsarnaev's body and he is working on other arrangements.

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In Louisiana, for example, a group of monks is fighting back against state requirements that they must obtain a funeral home director's license to sell caskets, a license that must be obtained from a board where nine of the 10 sitting members are from the state's largest funeral homes.

FORBES

The director of the funeral home in Worcester, Massachusetts, likened the task to burying notorious mass murderers from recent US history.

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In 2003, Samuel Smith Jr. of East Chicago, Indiana, included his business card as Indiana State Senator and another for his job as Director of the Divinity Funeral Home.

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Stegall, executive director of the state's Funeral Directors Association.

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Among those at the funeral were Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi, film director Franco Zeffirelli, former U.N.

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