We did this for my Mother-in-law when she passed away in 2011. I wondered what it looked like. The funeral director told us she’d be in a box inside of the casket and that box would be used for her cremation after the services. Thank you for explaining and for the visualizations of this.
Money was tight when my mom passed away suddenly. I couldn’t bear the thought of her in a cloth casket. The funeral home we used has been one our family has used for decades. They offered us the rental casket. We were told the inside fabrics and such are changed out for each decedent and that the rental can only be used 10 times. If the 10th family didn’t purchase it at a discounted rate then they would discard it. We were the 10th family so we purchased it. It was a beautiful cherry wood casket. We had her viewing and typical catholic services. We had her cremated where she currently sits on my bookshelf in the living room in a beautiful cherry wood urn where she can be near her grandchildren.
Interesting tidbit from a coffin maker, the "Cloth part that goes around the lip of the casket" is called the "Drape", and if it was a split lid or as I call them Perfection cut designs, the cloth piece that goes over the closed lid as to dress it up is called the throw.
They used one for my aunt when died in 2015. Didn't surprise me because I always knew she and my uncle planned on cremation when their times came. We had the funeral at church then afterwards they just took her instead of us going to cemetery like we would for burial. A few days later the cremation was done and we had a small commitial service at the cemetery chapel for her that mainly had a few of her siblings and me there. I'm planning something similar for myself when ever my time comes.
There was a 15 year old Philadelphia boy who died from terminal cancer. His parents wanted a viewing, he wanted to be cremated. The parents were conned by the funeral home to buy a metal casket which cost them about $4,000. After the services, the body was removed and cremated. The "used" casket appeared or sale on Craigslist stating: "Contact the funeral home". I wonder how many other laws this (alleged) funeral home has broken over the years.
This is what I used for my father when he passed, 1 night viewing and cremation the next morning. and it looked like a regular wooden casket, in fact many people complimented me on it. if only they knew.
Both of my parents were cremated. My Mom died years after my Dad. We had the wake and service at the funeral home. The caskets were metal and closed. We had a photo on top of the casket. I wondered if they were really in the casket. We were told if their bodies were going to be veiwed, they had to be embalmed. They wanted to keep cost down and didn't want that. Now I hear on social media, by law a body does not have to be embalmed to be veiwed. Of course there's exceptions. Still a bit confused about that. When my Mom died, the funeral home did one thing different then they did for my Dad. After we made the arrangements, the director wanted us to see our Mother and also make sure it was her. He called us. He wrapped her up loosely with a sheet and only had her face showing. Well, that's the experience my family had. I also enjoy your videos.
I love your channel and so appreciate what you do. I have always greatly preferred traditional burial with embalming, open casket viewing, and the procession rather than cremation. I find that in my generation (I'm in my 20s,) people overwhelmingly have an attitude of, "Who really cares what happens to the body? They're dead! Just cremate them and save the money!" I feel like we're losing something sacred by moving away from tradition. It's very important to me to give my family members (and myself) a traditional, dignified funeral and burial. My fear is that when that time comes for my husband and I, the times will have changed so much that this just isn't done anymore and traditional burial won't be an option anymore. (I don't like green burial either.) As a funeral director, do you think my worry is unfounded? Will traditional burial always be around?
I have seen rental caskets fairly regularly at the FH I work for in TN. Granted, I have not been there long- I am new to the industry, and am in the process of startinf school. I haven't seen how rentals work until now; so thanks for sharing. Mainly they are used for creations at our facilities.
We did that for my dad. They charge us but it wasnt much. Nothing made me feel worse than knowing my father was laying in a cardboard box. Something I'll never get out of my mind
Hi Kari really interesting information, I didn't know about this subject but it makes sense. I'm not sure if we do rented casket's in Scotland, I'm going to Google it and see what we offer. Hope you and your family are well. Love from Nancy in Scotland x
my son's father his family always does cremation and they always do viewings before The cremation and they always have a rental casket.. I didn't know what rental casket was and then in 2014 I learned what it was. My son's father's cousin was tragically murdered in 2015 I took the time to look at the casket and I saw the part where the door is at the end that comes down.. you cannot tell that the casket is not a full casket they do it really nice so that it looks like a full cast... The work that they do the restorative work at that funeral home is absolutely horrible... I want there for a few viewings and the people do not look anything like they did in life.. I went to a viewing where it was a tragic car accident and that funeral home did a horrible job of covering up the injuries on the face you could see the lines around where their face had trauma it was absolutely terrible.. they use the hat to try to cover it up but you could still see into the body.. I hope that when I die I got a funeral home like you or Lauren have... That particular funeral home doesn't seem like they care about what the people look like it's all about the money..
Hi Kari....around 1200.00 w.pa....3 hr visitation...wood ..90 percent cremation....400.00 per hr....wow😀 I still don't understand people I know who have sent a 3,000.00 metal casket through the retort when I've seen rentals that looked beautiful...very tastefully done...not my money so it is what it is😀 .. thanks
Most funeral homes do indeed re-use caskets without changing the interior. You need to learn the correct casket terms.....Usually the rental units that you are talking about are rented for the actual cost that the funeral director pays for the rental unit.they usually rent them many times and then bury them for full price....The rental inserts are cheap , about $100 each..
@@KaritheMortician Yes it's very illegal, but it's frequently done with the minimum metal units.Many families refuse to pay the cost of a standard rental so more and more i've seen minimum metals used over and over. My competitor used one casket 8 times before he finally buried it.Great that you don't do it, but sadly many do.I've complained to the state board about it but they can't prove or enforce the law.
@@davidwhite8589 just because one of your competitors did it, doesn't meant they all do it ...but guess what ...now that you posted it.... people are going to think YOU do it ..... as well as every other Funeral Home.
Ilegal in the UK, specially for cremations. The container the body is in when it goes through to the back or the curtains close, is what is placed in the oven. Container can't be opened.
Ilegal, coffin can't be opened once through the curtains, cremations are done at crematoriums, so even with basic, no frills cremation, the coffin is taken into the chapel, placed on bier, then curtains close, usually just the pall bearers and funeral director in attendance, done before the start of the normal services, because then they can be cremated early. Once the curtains are shut, the coffin goes through to the crematers are, and at this point it can't be opened, so a rental coffin couldn't be used. Cardboard coffins yes, but like ones I've seen on some videos like a certain kind of death, but in UK usually no writing or decorated. But even with cardboard coffins, they don't usually have another outer shell
We don't have rental caskets at our facility, however a cemetery in the area has sold pre-paid packages where the grave and vault and rental unit are all part of it.The darn thing looks like a big tupperware container, lol. Some of the families have been quite surprised at the burial when they see the unit, and some are even angry because they didn't expect it to look the way it does. But it is a perfectly acceptable burial container and it is put in a vault just like a regular casket.
@@KaritheMortician As a further note,on Monday the cemetery dropped off a conventional casket, not the Tupperware. The driver said they would be using them now not the "old" reusable unit. The new one was a wood, from Thacker. We think its an import unit.
@@KaritheMortician It looked identical to a batesville wood. Non-sealer, with a single lock for each lid along the front. The driver said that they were sharing warehouse space with other businesses and the tubs were getting damaged. But their "cover" box was getting pretty beat up and I would surmise they couldn't get any replacements. If the bought these new ones as a big purchase agreement it probably saves them money and definitely saves them labor as they had to send guys to the cemeteries to remove the tupperware for burial.
The fit and finish were acceptable, but no where near the quality of the woods we sell. The interior was not as nice either. But, I've always felt each family should have as many options and choices as available as it is ultimately their choice for their loved ones. My guess is that the casket they delivered is the only one they provide, just like the rental one.
As ever, super information. The practices in the USA are so different than we have here in the UK. This isn’t a thing that we have in the UK, I suppose I should clarify this and specify that it’s not something we do here in Scotland. Perhaps because the trend is still more towards the traditional wooden coffin rather than the metal casket type containers. I’m guessing that it’s to cut costs?
Lily may Philippon In my area ( WVa and Ohio) there are cloth covered cardboard wood frame caskets that are used for burial. These are mainly used for indigent persons with state burial and usually with a sectional vault. The lids are non locking. A sectional vault is 6 flat slabs of concrete that are set together consisting of 2 end pieces, top and bottom and 2 sides. At the cemetery where I worked these were just set together with no sealant or connecting devices.
You can be cremated and spread over the ocean or be made in to a artificial reef. I am going to be cremated and have a paddle out ceremony and spread over the ocean.
I always thought funeral homes DID reuse rental caskets, just took out all of the interior and disposed of it... Is it true that funeral homes or cemeteries take people's loved ones out of the caskets after the funeral is over and resell the caskets? They probably put peoples loved ones in some type of cardboard box or something, and unless the family digs them up theyll never know...
Hi I had 2 questions for you hun.... my aunt passed away and she was in a separate room just on a gurnee covered have way up on a blanket why do people do this? And my 2nd question was my husband was on life support and I told him my son loved him a tear fell down a few hours later he passed do you think he heard me tell him that? Thank you hun
My Papaw paid for it and it was 9 years ago. He said the casket was $500 and $55 for something extra. I’m assuming it was the inserts. She was cremated and I’m pretty sure they also paid for a container to cremate her in. I did her makeup,hair and nails for the viewing. They had her on a Metal bed when I did that and her casket was empty. So I got to see it before she was in it.I really couldn’t tell any difference between that casket and a normal casket. It was beautiful and the lining was beautiful. It didn’t look cheap or anything. they even let me spray the liner with her perfume like I said. It was really nice. I didn’t feel like we were giving her any less because it was a rental. It was a wooden casket with a really nice finish. It was the first funeral I had ever been to and I’m not like an expert on caskets. Is that the typical price? We didn’t look around at any other Funeral homes. I think we just took the first people that called to be honest. None of us had any idea what we were doing.
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I had no idea. Thanks for the information.
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We did this for my Mother-in-law when she passed away in 2011. I wondered what it looked like. The funeral director told us she’d be in a box inside of the casket and that box would be used for her cremation after the services. Thank you for explaining and for the visualizations of this.
Wow! I did not know about the pod. Very interesting.
Thank you!
Money was tight when my mom passed away suddenly. I couldn’t bear the thought of her in a cloth casket. The funeral home we used has been one our family has used for decades. They offered us the rental casket. We were told the inside fabrics and such are changed out for each decedent and that the rental can only be used 10 times. If the 10th family didn’t purchase it at a discounted rate then they would discard it. We were the 10th family so we purchased it. It was a beautiful cherry wood casket. We had her viewing and typical catholic services. We had her cremated where she currently sits on my bookshelf in the living room in a beautiful cherry wood urn where she can be near her grandchildren.
Interesting tidbit from a coffin maker, the "Cloth part that goes around the lip of the casket" is called the "Drape", and if it was a split lid or as I call them Perfection cut designs, the cloth piece that goes over the closed lid as to dress it up is called the throw.
This is such an amazing thing for savings to do a viewing pre-cremation. Thank you for answering this question.
They used one for my aunt when died in 2015. Didn't surprise me because I always knew she and my uncle planned on cremation when their times came. We had the funeral at church then afterwards they just took her instead of us going to cemetery like we would for burial. A few days later the cremation was done and we had a small commitial service at the cemetery chapel for her that mainly had a few of her siblings and me there. I'm planning something similar for myself when ever my time comes.
There was a 15 year old Philadelphia boy who died from terminal cancer. His parents wanted a viewing, he wanted to be cremated. The parents were conned by the funeral home to buy a metal casket which cost them about $4,000. After the services, the body was removed and cremated. The "used" casket appeared or sale on Craigslist stating: "Contact the funeral home". I wonder how many other laws this (alleged) funeral home has broken over the years.
Do you have a link to that story?
This is what I used for my father when he passed, 1 night viewing and cremation the next morning. and it looked like a regular wooden casket, in fact many people complimented me on it. if only they knew.
Thank you
@@KaritheMortician You're so welcome
Very interesting! I had no idea there was such a thing!
Both of my parents were cremated. My Mom died years after my Dad. We had the wake and service at the funeral home. The caskets were metal and closed. We had a photo on top of the casket. I wondered if they were really in the casket. We were told if their bodies were going to be veiwed, they had to be embalmed. They wanted to keep cost down and didn't want that. Now I hear on social media, by law a body does not have to be embalmed to be veiwed. Of course there's exceptions. Still a bit confused about that. When my Mom died, the funeral home did one thing different then they did for my Dad. After we made the arrangements, the director wanted us to see our Mother and also make sure it was her. He called us. He wrapped her up loosely with a sheet and only had her face showing. Well, that's the experience my family had.
I also enjoy your videos.
Yes, it is a requirement of the funeral home for a public viewing but not a law. If it is a family private viewing many do not require it even.
I love your channel and so appreciate what you do. I have always greatly preferred traditional burial with embalming, open casket viewing, and the procession rather than cremation. I find that in my generation (I'm in my 20s,) people overwhelmingly have an attitude of, "Who really cares what happens to the body? They're dead! Just cremate them and save the money!" I feel like we're losing something sacred by moving away from tradition. It's very important to me to give my family members (and myself) a traditional, dignified funeral and burial. My fear is that when that time comes for my husband and I, the times will have changed so much that this just isn't done anymore and traditional burial won't be an option anymore. (I don't like green burial either.) As a funeral director, do you think my worry is unfounded? Will traditional burial always be around?
I never knew there was such a thing! I learned something new! Thanks for sharing!
Craziest thing I've heard, but you are great at your job!!! Thank you!!❤
wow, love learning from you and I am glad people have this option
When my wife passed and we had a rental casket but 2 weeks later this casket was on display for sale on the showing room
How do you know it was the same casket?
I have seen rental caskets fairly regularly at the FH I work for in TN. Granted, I have not been there long- I am new to the industry, and am in the process of startinf school. I haven't seen how rentals work until now; so thanks for sharing. Mainly they are used for creations at our facilities.
Great info!
Makes perfect sense. Something decent for a viewing, yet not wasting all those $$$ for be burned up or buried in a green burial.
Typically how many times can a rental casket be used before it wears out?
10-20 maybe if not more. Depends if its being transported to a church and such.
Right just jazz up the exterior cheapest way to bling it out for the veiwing.
Kewl awsome saveing money
We did that for my dad. They charge us but it wasnt much. Nothing made me feel worse than knowing my father was laying in a cardboard box. Something I'll never get out of my mind
Hi Kari really interesting information, I didn't know about this subject but it makes sense. I'm not sure if we do rented casket's in Scotland, I'm going to Google it and see what we offer. Hope you and your family are well. Love from Nancy in Scotland x
my son's father his family always does cremation and they always do viewings before The cremation and they always have a rental casket.. I didn't know what rental casket was and then in 2014 I learned what it was. My son's father's cousin was tragically murdered in 2015 I took the time to look at the casket and I saw the part where the door is at the end that comes down.. you cannot tell that the casket is not a full casket they do it really nice so that it looks like a full cast... The work that they do the restorative work at that funeral home is absolutely horrible... I want there for a few viewings and the people do not look anything like they did in life.. I went to a viewing where it was a tragic car accident and that funeral home did a horrible job of covering up the injuries on the face you could see the lines around where their face had trauma it was absolutely terrible.. they use the hat to try to cover it up but you could still see into the body.. I hope that when I die I got a funeral home like you or Lauren have... That particular funeral home doesn't seem like they care about what the people look like it's all about the money..
Love your videos and appreciate your work!
You're such a beautiful lady Kari! Very interesting video, thank you so much!
Hi Kari....around 1200.00 w.pa....3 hr visitation...wood ..90 percent cremation....400.00 per hr....wow😀 I still don't understand people I know who have sent a 3,000.00 metal casket through the retort when I've seen rentals that looked beautiful...very tastefully done...not my money so it is what it is😀
.. thanks
That is what I did for my sister. Rented and paid for interior.
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So if the dead fault on the payment for use of the casket, will they be taken to court? Lmao!
Yes people can be taken to court for not paying the funeral home
@@KaritheMortician you should just include it in the price to avoid awkward appearances, and adjust your price accordingly.
Most funeral homes do indeed re-use caskets without changing the interior. You need to learn the correct casket terms.....Usually the rental units that you are talking about are rented for the actual cost that the funeral director pays for the rental unit.they usually rent them many times and then bury them for full price....The rental inserts are cheap , about $100 each..
It is illegal to reuse a casket.
@@KaritheMortician Yes it's very illegal, but it's frequently done with the minimum metal units.Many families refuse to pay the cost of a standard rental so more and more i've seen minimum metals used over and over. My competitor used one casket 8 times before he finally buried it.Great that you don't do it, but sadly many do.I've complained to the state board about it but they can't prove or enforce the law.
@@davidwhite8589 just because one of your competitors did it, doesn't meant they all do it ...but guess what ...now that you posted it.... people are going to think YOU do it ..... as well as every other Funeral Home.
Ilegal in the UK, specially for cremations. The container the body is in when it goes through to the back or the curtains close, is what is placed in the oven. Container can't be opened.
Ilegal, coffin can't be opened once through the curtains, cremations are done at crematoriums, so even with basic, no frills cremation, the coffin is taken into the chapel, placed on bier, then curtains close, usually just the pall bearers and funeral director in attendance, done before the start of the normal services, because then they can be cremated early. Once the curtains are shut, the coffin goes through to the crematers are, and at this point it can't be opened, so a rental coffin couldn't be used. Cardboard coffins yes, but like ones I've seen on some videos like a certain kind of death, but in UK usually no writing or decorated. But even with cardboard coffins, they don't usually have another outer shell
www.fbca.org.uk/questions-people-ask-about-cremation
In Mexico I've heard there's rentals.
why is it illegal to rent a normal casket?
So I take it that this bag that you're talking about is actually the doeskin liner? Only way to go if you do a lot of Cremations in your Mortuary
What is the average cost of a rental casket?
@@KaritheMortician thank you..
We don't have rental caskets at our facility, however a cemetery in the area has sold pre-paid packages where the grave and vault and rental unit are all part of it.The darn thing looks like a big tupperware container, lol. Some of the families have been quite surprised at the burial when they see the unit, and some are even angry because they didn't expect it to look the way it does. But it is a perfectly acceptable burial container and it is put in a vault just like a regular casket.
@@KaritheMortician As a further note,on Monday the cemetery dropped off a conventional casket, not the Tupperware. The driver said they would be using them now not the "old" reusable unit. The new one was a wood, from Thacker. We think its an import unit.
@@KaritheMortician It looked identical to a batesville wood. Non-sealer, with a single lock for each lid along the front. The driver said that they were sharing warehouse space with other businesses and the tubs were getting damaged. But their "cover" box was getting pretty beat up and I would surmise they couldn't get any replacements. If the bought these new ones as a big purchase agreement it probably saves them money and definitely saves them labor as they had to send guys to the cemeteries to remove the tupperware for burial.
The fit and finish were acceptable, but no where near the quality of the woods we sell. The interior was not as nice either. But, I've always felt each family should have as many options and choices as available as it is ultimately their choice for their loved ones. My guess is that the casket they delivered is the only one they provide, just like the rental one.
Interesting
As ever, super information. The practices in the USA are so different than we have here in the UK. This isn’t a thing that we have in the UK, I suppose I should clarify this and specify that it’s not something we do here in Scotland. Perhaps because the trend is still more towards the traditional wooden coffin rather than the metal casket type containers. I’m guessing that it’s to cut costs?
Noo its because in scotland it's too cold for a cardboard casket kari hehe! I've never heard of a rental in england either bobbi 😂😃😆
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@@bobbibuttons8730 im positive it's not soo cold there lol
@@bobbibuttons8730 when u said shut lid on him, it would have to be one of the common kind because u said the place didn't have caskets bobbi
What is the pod used for?
How big is it?
For cremation what can I get
Do they do cardboard caskets still
Lily may Philippon
In my area ( WVa and Ohio) there are cloth covered cardboard wood frame caskets that are used for burial. These are mainly used for indigent persons with state burial and usually with a sectional vault. The lids are non locking. A sectional vault is 6 flat slabs of concrete that are set together consisting of 2 end pieces, top and bottom and 2 sides. At the cemetery where I worked these were just set together with no sealant or connecting devices.
What are options for burial at sea. Can I just have someone toss me out of a boat ?
Lol!
You can be cremated and spread over the ocean or be made in to a artificial reef. I am going to be cremated and have a paddle out ceremony and spread over the ocean.
My brother had his wife cremated, but wanted a viewing. He was charged the total price of the casket.
That is sad. He was ripped off. You can just use a cremation container for the viewing. You just dress it up with white silk sheets.
I always thought funeral homes DID reuse rental caskets, just took out all of the interior and disposed of it... Is it true that funeral homes or cemeteries take people's loved ones out of the caskets after the funeral is over and resell the caskets? They probably put peoples loved ones in some type of cardboard box or something, and unless the family digs them up theyll never know...
Hi Kari!
My wife was in a metal rental for viewing. Cremation next day. I believe it was $800, 6 years ago.
Hey they rent graves elsewhere, so ..........
hello Kari
Hi I had 2 questions for you hun.... my aunt passed away and she was in a separate room just on a gurnee covered have way up on a blanket why do people do this? And my 2nd question was my husband was on life support and I told him my son loved him a tear fell down a few hours later he passed do you think he heard me tell him that? Thank you hun
She did a video on this if you look thru her videos she explains why you sometimes see a tear.
But he wasnt dead yet he was on life support
Steph Truax - yes, he heard you!
@@KaritheMortician yes she was in a funeral home
Ok she was cremated too and is it true if your not brain dead you'll get sick when they put the life support down your throat
We did this for my mom when she was cremated. It wasn’t free. 😬. And it was wooden. They even let me spray the inside with her perfume.
My Papaw paid for it and it was 9 years ago. He said the casket was $500 and $55 for something extra. I’m assuming it was the inserts. She was cremated and I’m pretty sure they also paid for a container to cremate her in. I did her makeup,hair and nails for the viewing. They had her on a Metal bed when I did that and her casket was empty. So I got to see it before she was in it.I really couldn’t tell any difference between that casket and a normal casket. It was beautiful and the lining was beautiful. It didn’t look cheap or anything. they even let me spray the liner with her perfume like I said. It was really nice. I didn’t feel like we were giving her any less because it was a rental. It was a wooden casket with a really nice finish.
It was the first funeral I had ever been to and I’m not like an expert on caskets. Is that the typical price? We didn’t look around at any other Funeral homes. I think we just took the first people that called to be honest. None of us had any idea what we were doing.
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What a morbid thing.
Not at all
It’s nice you have a rental casket for people who can’t afford the Bentley of eternal rest ones
23000subs. What you going to do for 25000 subs
Great information!