Families can still have an open-casket funeral, and most do.

Lottie was glad Janet opted for an open-casket funeral.

So I can tell your next-of-kin what you looked like just before I tore your face off and ruined any chance for an open-casket funeral.

The lawsuit was prompted by accounts of a pornographic tattoo on the decedent's left forearm, as described by newspaper reporters attending the open-casket funeral.

Studying pictures of Stacy, the value of open-casket funerals, the laying out of the body, night watches-rituals that cut across religious and cultural lines-became clear.

"It means Wade Midsel doesn't have much chance for an open-casket funeral."

Candles lighted Stella's open-casket funeral in the double parlor.

Among other things, he said, his son's body was so badly injured that the family could not have an open-casket funeral as it had planned.

Her father-Frank-had had an open-casket funeral, and she had been to the obsequies of older family friends in her own time, as well.

It's like going to an open-casket funeral: you know it's the same person, but he doesn't look right.