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Constance Glantz, 74, was declared dead at a nursing home near the state capital of Lincoln on Monday. Staff at a local funeral home that she was then brought to noticed about two hours later that she was still breathing. They quickly performed CPR on her.

Bynes-Royall Funeral Home is the oldest African American funeral home in the United States. The institution dates back to 1878, when Major William H. Royall was employed by a white-owned funeral home in Savannah. This funeral home, like so many at the time, did not serve the African American community.

Funeral homes in the U.S. by ownership type 2023

In 2023, the vast majority of funeral homes in the United States were owned by small businesses and/or families, making up almost 90 percent of total ownership.

The earliest evidence of wooden coffin remains, dated at 5000 BC, was found in the Tomb 4 at Beishouling, Shaanxi. Clear evidence of a rectangular wooden coffin was found in Tomb 152 in an early Banpo site.

Service Corporation International (SCI) is the largest funeral home company in the world, with a network of over 2,000 locations across the United States and Canada.

The “Woman in the Iron Coffin” was first discovered by construction workers on October 4, 2011 and was believed to be a victim of a homicide. Archaeologists were called to the site on October 5, 2011, where they discovered metal fragments, suggesting the woman was buried more than 150 years ago.

(AP) — A Nebraska funeral home discovered that a 74-year-old hospice patient who was declared dead by her nursing home two hours earlier was actually still alive, so workers started CPR and she was rushed to a hospital, where she died hours later.

An Irish woman who was buried alive in the 18th century gave grave robbers the shock of their lives when she woke up during the robbery. Margorie McCall was born in 1705 in Lurgan, County Armagh. As an adult, she took ill and was pronounced dead. She was buried in the Shankill Graveyard.

'Unsensational' funeral

The temporary crypt was identifiable only by a small, stick-on strip attached to the granite slab that said, simply: “SANDRA WEST.” In this May 1977 file photo, concrete is dumped on top of the crate in Sandra West's grave containing her Ferrari with West in the driver's seat, as she requested.