How did you and the rest of your family feel about Emmett's mother's decision to hold the funeral with an open casket? Well, an open casket is a common thing in African American tradition.

The funeral was an open casket ceremony, with Quan’s body front and center at World Changers Church International as ...

A platform collapsed in Philadelphia, causing pallbearers to fall into an open grave and be crushed by the casket.

Emmett Till’s mother declined an offer from the mortician to “touch up” her son’s body, and she made the decision to have an open casket funeral. “I think everybody needed to know what ...

Rachelle and her family accused Clark Morgan of posing as a funeral director and leaving their mother's body to decompose, which was why her eyes popped open ... he found the casket of the ...