Nicolini had made clear her anger at the authorities' failure to keep their promise on Tuesday, when she tweeted that she had "casually learned" that bodies taken from Lampedusa in coffins were being buried in several different cemeteries "without funerals".
Whichever is true, Annie's body lingered in the morgue for six months before she was buried, without a funeral, in a small pine box in a mass grave on Hart Island.
In Oklahoma, as in nearly a dozen other states, the law prohibits anyone without a funeral director's license from selling a coffin -- critics say the policy is meant to protect the interests of funeral homes.
In addition, an increasing number of Japanese are deciding to have their loved ones cremated without any funeral at all, said Noriyuki Ueda, an anthropologist at the Tokyo Institute of Technology and an expert on Buddhism.
I cringe every time a divorcee says, "You can understand, since divorce is like a death without a funeral".
He requested in his will to be taken to the cemetery without any funeral, and to be moved to Buenos Aires thereafter.
Robert Morgenthau, the Manhattan district attorney, said when Mr. Velazquez was arrested in November that he had sold six coffins to funeral directors without Bellevue's permission.
It is unusual to find ancient graves without some sort of funeral objects—ornaments or weapons or receptacles for food, signs of rank or distinction, or equipment for the journey to the other world.
That is why loved ones of those without prepaid funerals are urged to let someone make arrangements on their behalf.
His wife, Marian, prepares for a funeral without a body.
