open-casket

It all began in 1955, when Withers, who had specialized in photographing black celebrities, took intentionally shocking open-casket pictures of Emmett Till, a black Chicago teenager who was beaten and shot in Mississippi.

TV's 'Injustice Files,' 'Pictures Don't Lie' revisit civil rights era 2011

After the exam was over, the doctor would sew the incision back up, and it would not be visible during an open-casket viewing.

Law of Attraction Allison Leotta 2010

After the exam was over, the doctor would sew the incision back up, and it would not be visible during an open-casket viewing.

Law of Attraction Allison Leotta 2010

God, whoever invented the open-casket ritual should have been shot and put on display.

Thirst No. 3 Christopher Pike 2010

Mr. Swanson reveals the true reason for all of those floral decorations at the open-casket displays: "Fragrant flowers would mask the odor."

The Long Goodbye 2010

After the exam was over, the doctor would sew the incision back up, and it would not be visible during an open-casket viewing.

Law of Attraction Allison Leotta 2010

Some people chuckled derisively at the open-casket affair and he himself felt a sort of perverse, confused amusement at the thought of his domineering father now reduced to a ludicrously bespectacled husk.

Steven Weber: For My Father 10/3/25 - 3/6/87 2009

Montalban will be remembered in an open-casket, shirtless-corpse ceremony next Monday.

KHAAAAAN!!! (IS DEAD) 2009

It's a good example of the film's un-Disneylike brand of "fun" that's likely to upset young children, especially if they've been unlucky enough to have attended a grandparent's open-casket funeral.

Jonathan Kim: ReThink Review: Disney's A Christmas Carol (3D) -- Don't Get Scrooged 2009

Let me state for the record that I just don't get open-casket funerals.

lux perpetua luceat eis 2008