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Funeral

Ceremony for servicing, celebrating, and remembering the life of a deceased person.

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Lowering device

Personal life; Funeral

Mechanism placed over the open grave with two or more straps to secure the casket and then used to lower the casket into the grave by unwinding the straps from a cylinder to lower casket into place.

Living will

Personal life; Funeral

Legal document detailing the wishes of an individual concerning his/her medical care, particularly in respect to resuscitation and life sustaining technology.

Living trust

Personal life; Funeral

Trust that has been established during the life of the trustee.

Limousine

Personal life; Funeral

An automobile designed to seat five or more persons behind the driver's seat.

Licence

Personal life; Funeral

Authorization from the state that grants permission to perform duties that would otherwise be illegal.

Lead car

Personal life; Funeral

The vehicle in which the funeral director and sometimes the clergyman rides. When the procession is formed, the lead car moves to the head of it and leads the procession to the church and/or ...

Inurnment

Personal life; Funeral

The placing of the ashes of one cremated in an urn.

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