funeral home

noun

Updated on: 28 Feb 2018

Definition of funeral home

: an establishment with facilities for the preparation of the dead for burial or cremation, for the viewing of the body, and for funerals — called also funeral parlor

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Recent Examples of funeral home from the Web

The Flint funeral home had been fined several times and faced multiple complaints before Michigan’s Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs suspended licenses of the business and its manager, O’Neil Swanson II.

— Washington Post, "Funeral home horrors put spotlight on spotty US regulations," 28 Oct. 2017
According to 2013 accounting records for one Florida funeral home, Science Care reimbursed $180 to $525 per body.

— author: brian grow, john shiffman, Alaska Dispatch News, "U.S. company makes a fortune selling bodies that have been donated to ‘science’," 26 Oct. 2017
In the afternoon, the authorities learned that another had died early in the morning, and was initially uncounted because the person had been taken directly to a funeral home.

— neil reisner, sheri fink and vivian yee, New York Times, "Eight Dead From Sweltering Nursing Home as Florida Struggles After Irma," 13 Sep. 2017
Family members and funeral homes provided the job and industry information, which is recorded on death certificates.

— cleveland.com, "Opioid overdose deaths: Which jobs are at risk?," 5 Nov. 2017
Victorian mourning traditions gave way to funeral homes and hearses.

— brian walsh, Smithsonian, "When You Die, You’ll Probably Be Embalmed. Thank Abraham Lincoln For That," 1 Nov. 2017
About every 10 years, a local funeral home is asked to perform a memorial and a mass burial of the unclaimed.

— sam wood, Philly.com, "Victims of opioid overdoses stack up for coroners, costing taxpayers dearly," 19 Oct. 2017
Phyllis called the funeral home listed in the obituary – Johnson & Sons of Reidsville – and someone there gave them a phone number for William’s youngest brother, Jacey Bell, a minister who had presided over Warner’s funeral.

— théoden janes, charlotteobserver, "After 56 years apart, they rediscovered a love they thought was lost forever," 18 Oct. 2017
Bressler and Roth’s West Seattle pet funeral home and disposition service does not burn animals’ bodies.

— melissa davis, The Seattle Times, "A respectful, eco-friendly way to say goodbye," 31 Aug. 2017

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