The open-casket funeral, where friends said they could not get over the swelling in his face.

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.

The condition of the corpses will preclude an open-casket ceremony, won't it?

The term "meat explosion" was used to describe his demise and thus the lack of an open-casket funeral.

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

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

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

• Organ donation does not preclude an open-casket funeral.

She decided to have an open-casket funeral, saying, "There was just no way I could describe what was in that box."

The co-hosts discuss the National Enquirer's open-casket cover image of singer.

The open-casket service (which is common in North America) allows mourners to have one last opportunity to view the deceased and say good-bye.

“Have you ever been to an open-casket funeral?”

Candles lighted Stellas open-casket funeral in the double parlor.

Donors can have an open-casket funeral.

The body of the deceased may be embalmed and dressed in fine clothing if there will be an open-casket viewing.

In some countries, for example the Philippines and the United States, embalming ahead of open-casket funerals is now quite common.

Despite their hesitation, Davidson and his family continued with the open-casket viewing and funeral, to which they had invited 150 guests, the attorney said.

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.

An hour before the doors opened, rumors that the casket was empty began circulating, which prompted the Quintanilla family to have an open-casket viewing.

Ms. Berg said that "organ donation will not disfigure the donor and subsequently prevent an open-casket viewing after his or her death."

And there is no disfigurement to the body from the rapid surgery that recovers the donated eyes; open-casket funerals are not precluded.

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.

Sixteen years later, Homer is working as a manure salesman, infomercial question-asker, and open-casket caricaturist, but dreaming of being a rock star.

African-Americans, steeped in the traditions of open-casket funerals and rousing eulogies, remain the most resistant to cremation, according to surveys.