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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Worcester funeral home director Peter Stefan says more than 100 people in the U.S. and Canada have offered burial plots for the body of Tamerlan Tsarnaev, killed in a shootout with police, but officials in the cities and towns where they're located have said no.

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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.

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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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