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  • How long it will take before pre-need websites spring up?

    Janice Van Dyck: Dying In Cyberspace ... Are You Ready To Link In? Janice Van Dyck 2011

  • How long it will take before pre-need websites spring up?

    Janice Van Dyck: Dying In Cyberspace ... Are You Ready To Link In? Janice Van Dyck 2011

  • Some refer to a customer's visit before a death as "pre-need."

    Sandy Goodman: Forget Halloween But Take A Good Look At The Day Of The Dead 2008

  • With "pre-need" funeral arrangements, survivors can be saved from having to make difficult choices.

    The New Death 2007

  • This mushrooming business, running into hundreds of millions of dollars annually, is known in cemetery parlance as "pre-need" selling.

    The Undertaker's Racket 1969

  • In response to my inquiry, a cemetery salesman (identified on his card as a "memorial counsellor") called at my house to sell me what he was pleased to call a "pre-need memorial estate" — in other words, a grave.

    The Undertaker's Racket 1969

  • This mushrooming business, running into hundreds of millions of dollars annually, is known in cemetery parlance as "pre-need" selling.

    The Undertaker's Racket 1963

  • This mushrooming business, running into hundreds of millions of dollars annually, is known in cemetery parlance as "pre-need" selling.

    The Undertaker's Racket 1963

  • In response to my inquiry, a cemetery salesman (identified on his card as a "memorial counsellor") called at my house to sell me what he was pleased to call a "pre-need memorial estate" — in other words, a grave.

    The Undertaker's Racket 1963

  • StoneMor's cemetery products and services, which are sold on both a pre-need (before death) and at-need (at death) basis, include: burial lots, lawn and mausoleum crypts, burial vaults, caskets, memorials, and all services which provide for the installation of this merchandise.

    unknown title 2011

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