Sentence examples for be a closed casket from inspiring English sources
"It will be a closed casket.
Do you, um, think people should just go with your judgment on whether there should be a closed casket and put a picture on it?" Rhodes agreed.
Early in the 20th century it was common to view the body after death, but today in the United Kingdom it is usual to have a closed casket for the funeral, and people may not see the body beforehand. 1 People may feel ambivalent about the status of the corpse.
If there's a decomposed body, a closed casket doesn't mean it doesn't smell.
But she wanted to know, among other things, why it had taken the military two days to find her husband's body, and to understand why she had been told that he had to have a closed casket.
For many, the sterile environment of a closed casket and a prescribed ceremony is the closest they have come to touching death.
"I had a closed casket for my older kids cause he was so purple.
At the service, some knelt at a closed casket and bowed their heads.
In the Vigil of the Princes, Prince Albert and his three brothers took a shift standing guard over their father's body as it lay in state, in a closed casket, in Westminster Hall.
