Full-service funeral homes may have higher professional service costs due to their higher fixed overhead cost. Conversely, independent funeral directors may have lower costs. As noted, funerals may now include post service, also referred to as after care offerings such as banquet rooms, luncheons, and fully caterer wakes. The once-venerated Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi had in January 1979 in the face of an uprising on the streets, after a reign of 37 years in which he dreamt of making his country the fifth world power by 2000.
His exile opened the way for the triumphant return from France on February 1, 1979 and the establishment of an Islamic republic. At first courted then dumped by the Americans, he drifted between Morocco, the Bahamas, Mexico, the United States and Panama, before being given asylum on March 24, 1980, by his only real ally, Egyptian president Sadat. Gravely ill on arrival, he was rushed by helicopter to a military hospital, where he had his spleen removed. He then had a long convalescence at Cairo’s Kubbeh Palace, surrounded by his wife, Farah Diba, and four children. But his health deteriorated.
