LOL. . . something tells me that dead don't care what their final "box" looks like. It seems that most of these caskets are designed to slow down the rotting process. . .but what if faster rotting is the better way to go? After all, even scientists are not 100% sure when the nervous system shuts down completely after death - for all we know dead could be experiencing agonizing pain after death. This in turn means that the faster the body rots, the faster the nerve cells will be destroyed, henceforth, ensuring that the dead do not experience the potential agonizing pain. Considering all of this, maybe it is best to be buried in feces full of maggots which will be more than happy to disassemble your body including the nervous system.
A lot of these metal caskets are $1500 to $2500, unless you go to the most expensive furneral home in town. Nice wood caskets are about $3000 and if it wood veneer it's less
@@RickJones222 there's money in anything. That's the beauty of capitalism. You tend to remember painful times in your life more so than happy times. Therefore the financial cost of pain or grief is remembered more than happiness. The average wedding in the US is 25,000 and 50%+- of people will have more than one. However the average funeral cost is roughly 9000 and rarely anyone will have more than one. But the cost of a funeral is often targeted as unfair. I'm not here to say that caskets are a waste of money. That is entirely up to the consumer. But there has to be profit in every aspect of life (or death) for someone to be encouraged to provide the service.
I agree, the Clark's hold up better than Wilbert's. When crypts used to be built w/o a gas vent, the vault sometimes exploded from all the decomp. gases that built up inside. Besides most of those gaskets last only a couple of years, it depends on if your loved ones planted you in the low end of the cemetery where the water accumulates.
We have a much smaller privately owned firm in Redford, Twp., Michigan named Superior Casket Company that does the same wonderful job, as well as Astral Industries down in Indiana! The one thing that I really don't understand is why would one want to put such a beautiful furniture grade wooden casket in the ground with their loved one's remains in it? That is probably why most Americans prefer your steel (and other better metal creations) for this type of use! However, no matter what it is made of (even fiberglass or ABS plastic), no casket (even when combined with a concrete vault) is meant to preserve a human body (even if it is embalmed) for any length of time, no matter when Christ's Second Coming happens! If anybody tells anyone otherwise, it is unfair and deceptive business practice!
Superior does good work with good quality products. Batesville is a division of Hil-Rom Industries. Makers of hospital beds. When it's my time I'm going to secure licensing from the Detroit Red Wings and have Superior custom make mine. They can build them quickly and get them to the funeral home on time. Nothing wrong with Batesville but you're going to pay for the name. When I was going to mortuary school our class at CCMS was going on a field trip to Batesville in Indiana. I had an emergency back home that required me to withdraw from school but I ended up as a Forensic Death Scene Investigator for the Medical Examiners Office.
I'm going to look into how I can just be put in a hole and buried-- no vault, no casket, no embalming-- no muss no fuss. I know this can be done in some places. Just let me go back to the earth without poisoning it any more than necessary. Don't know how a burial can be any more beautiful than that.
I'm hoping to be buried in the root all of a tree, so that I can support more life. Imagine if we created forests with our dead instead of creating gardens of stone and toxins.
I have always said that the funeral home business is one true "Recession Proof" job. This is one career that will stay in business till the end of time lol. 5-25-14
A favorite saying of funeral directors concerning caskets is "Another buried treasure". A $6k casket buried in the ground and no one will ever see it again,what a waste. Caskets are for the living not the dead,the body is going to deteriorate and turn to dust over decades so then you'll have a $6k casket full of dust. Embalming is another waste of money,why embalm,why subject your loved one to that ? Not like it's going to do them any good.
I'm all for cremation and my 2nd choice is a Jewish type burial.No embalming and get me in the ground the same day type of thing,no fancy casket or anything.A man I use to work for owned a chain of funeral homes and he wasn't even a licensed funeral director.When he was asked why he was in the business he said because it was so profitable.That helped open my eyes to the scam.
Alaitain, I'm sorry for your loss. I lost my grandpa a few years ago. I was never really able to get you know him. I'm glad you got to know your daughter so well as to know the perfect casket for her.
Many years ago, my sister in law told me her childhood best friend into adulthood, her first husband died if cancer young in the mid 60s and had his casket done the same silver blue as their 64 Corvette
In some states, you can be buried in just a white sheet if its on your, or family, land. In NC we have that option. There are more and more "green" burial options coming available as folks who are more environmentally minded are starting to die and requesting greener options and smaller footprint options. Check with your local state board of funeral science to see what your state requirements are or drop by your local funeral home and ask. They are required to disclose that to you if asked.
Dean Martin How true.It used to be that you had to be embalmed in Virginia regardless if the family was having a viewing or not. Now because of AIDS, it's an option.
my daughter had a really nice white casket. it was pure as white can be, because she was pure. it matched her burial gown, and flowers..thank u batesville, u all do a perfect caskets..
What people need to remeber is that the funeral is not for the dead. It never has been, is not, nor never will be for the dead. It is, always has been, and always will be for the living.
There are still plenty of folks who opt for traditional burial, myself included. No one in my family has ever been cremated. It is simply a personal preference. As far as the cost, you simply put aside funds or purchase life insurance. There was a time when people and families in general took pride in giving a loved one a proper funeral/burial service. It is sad to see that dwindling. Funerals are every bit as important as weddings. It shocks me to see and hear the cavalier attitudes of folks regarding their departure from this earth and that of their loved ones. I know a family who went totally against their mother's wishes for her funeral and burial. They cashed in the insurance money and had her cremated. Just awful. This lady was 93 years old and had everything written down to the letter. In fact, her ashes are still sitting in the trunk of her daughter's car.
my sister in law, told me her good friends husband died of cancer in the late 60's and her friend had his casket painted the color of their 1964 Corvette . Silverblue
you may think so now, but your family will incur the cost that were not covered which will significantly increase the cost. Depending on what type of pre-need you have you may have only actually payed the service fee of the funeral home or payed for an insurance plan which does not cover every thing as well.
@The391956 The ashes are collected in an urn and the urn can be placed in the family room or inside a niche or tomb in a cemetery. In California, the disposal of the ashes or the placement of the containing urn must be registered with the county office.
Regarding the burial in urban cemeteries, you usually do not require any "test of time" type of casket. In most cemeteries, an outer burial container is required and this blocks most of any leakage. Even without the OBC, any materials seeped into the ground gets filtered by the ground itself and almost never contaminates the water.
To get the real scoop on how Americans pay through the nose, when they don't need to, for funerals, read a book by Jessica Mitford, "The American Way of Death Revisited." It is appalling how much people a re ripped off by the funeral industry. I wish it could be outlawed but that isn't going to happen.
I want to be with Mum (and Dad when he joins Mum) again, and I like the spot where Mum is as it's peaceful, and over looks my home town. I've picked my box, as I said it'll be oak, could have had Maple, but at £1,500, was to expensive, my funeral is all paid for, I've laid down the service order, and picked the hymn, and the music I want played-from a CD- at the end of it and my name and DoB is on the headstone, just a few more things to do like my will, and I'll be sorted.
Well I don't want people just burying people themselves, or worse, doing home cremation. No one is forced to buy a fancy box you only see for a day. I know a lady, who had quite a bit of money, and she was buried in just sort of cardboard box, wrapped in a white cloth, with no embalming or anything. It was her request. So yes, no one is REQUIRED to buy anything, it's just where society gears you toward. These funeral directors are running businesses, so yes, they are going to try to sell!
My mom died of terminal cancer. So we planned her funeral before she died. The cost was just a fraction of the regular price. Can't imagine how other people afford the funeral for sudden death! It is like booking an airline ticket few weeks in advance vs. buying a ticket for the next available flight. They charge you a few times more just because you have no choice. You can call that predatory practice too.
If you are talking about casket for cremation, there is even cheaper option. Cardboard box! Wood or paper, all turns to ash after the process. However, for burial in urban cemeteries, I believe the caskets are required to stand the test of time to prevent leakage into city ground water and for other sanitary reasons.
I'm bucking this trend. Opting for a green burial. Naked and wrapped in a cotton shroud and planted on my property. All legal just have to have the plot surveyed and recorded with the county.
I purchased a casket last year from the funeral home. I knew I could buy elsewhere, however when you have to go through the planning of a funeral there isn't much time. And I believe there is nothing wrong with a viewing or funeral. It provides closure and peace of mind for many. You won't have regrets later. For myself I purchased a cremation niche at a mausoleum. I don't like the idea of cremains in a house or closet or getting lost somewhere down the line. Pick a permanent space and leave it
The costs are indeed cheaper if you act *before* death but the waste of real estate remains the same. The whole issue of casket burial is still merely for the benefit of the living, not the dead.
That's exactly what I want. Just a biodegradable box (I thought they used pine for that reason) I dont want silk lining, I want to my physical body to be used by the earth. Bugs chow down:) That's IF I can have it that way. If I had my true choice, it would be body to soil, skip the box. BUT I think that one's illegal.
LOL I'd guess a couple hundred just for delivery. There are plenty of cheap coffin options out there, and federal law prohibits funeral homes from charging you more if you choose to buy your casket elsewhere and have it delivered to them for use with a funeral at their funeral home. Buying a casket at a funeral home is like buying a grocery item at a gas station rather than a grocery store. You're going to pay more because it's convenient and right there in front of you.
Ask any Funeral Director that'll be honest with you. Metal 16 (or what-ever guage) Caskets last only 10 years in the Vault before they rust apart & begin crumbling. That is why they are cheaper than wooden ones.
Yes, there are affordable caskets and funeral options out there. It's just that society has it drilled into people's heads that they have to have the best and most expensive. Just like with cell phones, everybody has to have an iphone or something equally amazing. Well they don't! I have a flip phone I bought used 3 years ago, and I'm doing just fine! I plan on buying my coffin used too! LOL! Just kidding on that, but you get my point hopefully!
Predatory pricing is EXACTLY what it is. Regardless of what it's for, the end result is the very same. Oddly most people seem to view this issue as being "just business" but when it comes to certain things people come absolutely unglued over it. Too bad everybody doesn't have the same anger over all types of financial predation because things would sure be a lot better if people didn't simply tolerate BS such as this.
The council/people who are in charge of the cemetry where I will be buried, do not allow metal coffins/caskits to be buried there. No matter, its near the top of a hill, and is dry, and oak lasts quite a long time.
Caskets are really for the living, not the dead. The living want their loved one to be buried in as fancy a casket as can be afforded with all the trimmings to go 'round. Casket burial is such a waste of resources not to mention real estate. It is an utter waste of materials in general and in the end only serves the living.
They say it’s a dying trade, but they seem to be making a killing. Some people would kill for something like that, but paying it off could be murder. Customers literally dying to do business with you always, on that you can be dead sure, and you never get a client coming back moaning after they have used their purchase either, even with the stiff competition.
I didn't know you could get them in so many colors and styles. When I go, I hope I get a nice one that won't embarrass me or anything. But nevertheless, I will try to be grateful and not complain about it.
My understanding is that the dead body is embalmed and supposed to last till eternity as a mummy or something. If the casket falls apart, the bugs and worms will definitely consume the body eventually. So that defeats the purpose of the embalming. I would rather be cremated to ash than take my chance with the maggots.
cplai Embalming is not permanent. It is done to “preserve” the body well enough for funeral services. You actually begin to decay within minutes to hours after you die. Nothing is permanent. The casket will rust or rot eventually. My grandfather was a Funeral Director.
The music would be more appropriate for a video say on BASE jumping or helicopter skiing. Still, something that interested me when it came up on my feed.
Indeed. I know my income certainly does not allow for us to save up for that kind of expense. We also are just trying to put our kids through school, keep them fed, clothed and warm. There is no such thing as 'just save up' for things like that. I think you are right about him being a kid. An adult would be able to understand not everyone can save for such an expense. He also talks down to you if you didn't know Walmart sells coffins but I saw where he was told this right here only 4 days ago!
Sorry for your loss. May her rest in peace. My mother wanted to be cremated and I guess the funeral home just used a cardboard box or nothing at all. It was really not that important to use because all will just turn into ashes.
The prices on caskets are crazy! I have had to buy a few in the last few years and went online (best price caskets). I was scared at first but man, they took care of us and the caskets were better than we expected, people thought we spent a lot more, that's for sure. I will never let them know I am shopping for a casket elsewhere because they rip you off elsewhere, but once I get their prices, it's on and I am saving and loving it. Just my 2 cents...;-)
You're right and I stand corrected,not all are money grubbers.Guess like any business you can get ripped off or receive good services,all depends.Plus it's up to each individual and their wants or needs.
Hello cplai, thank you for the informative video. I know there are caskets for children and adults, but how many different sizes of caskets are there? Take care.
You can also be embalmed "greenly" now. Duncan Chemical makes a green embalming fluid which contains no carcinogens in it like Formalin or any of those.
I'm not sure where the idea came from, but the "full lid" design your talking about is called a "Full Couch". Casket design popularity depends of what region of the world your in, religion, and ethnicity. In the U.S. market, full couch caskets are increasingly rare to see compared to 30 years ago. Over the last few decades, Full couch caskets only make up ~ 3% of my company's sales. The vast majority of the caskets we make are what the industry calls a "Perfection Couch". It's not actually cut in half, it's divided 60% on the viewing-(head)-end and 40%, that remains closed, on the foot-end to fully expose the torso and up, resulting in a "Perfect" viewing ratio.
You can be cremated for as little as $500. I don't know why people are so anxious to enrich those who profit from death. Spending an extra several thousand is not going to bring your loved one back.
Cremation without a service where I'm from is around 2600 my company can build a 20ga metal casket for $420 but that is before a funeral home marks it up.
I'm actually thinking, since I'm divorced and single, kids are grown basically, Maybe I should go set it all up , get a stone etc. A few years ago grave stones were about $400. Just bought one last year for my brother and it was $750 for a basic flat stone
@kambridge967 The casket being so nice isn't really for the dead person. It's for the living, the ones who the dead leave behind. It gives the living people comfort to see their loved ones burred in class.
Yes poor choice of words on my part but I am sure the deceased has to be in some sort of container before going into a crematorium. Could be wrong I never worked in the funeral business.
Maybe but no-way would I do that, the funeral director has a range of coffins at their head office, so I was able to see what the oak 'Avon' one looked like for real, you can also have wicker coffins over here, but I'm not a greenie.
This might be a dumb question, but we have 7.6 billion people on this world, and all these graveyards, I mean like, how do these people find all this room to make these huge graveyards, like I say probably by year 2100 is there even going to be anymore room to make another graveyard on earth, idk I might just be thinking the world is small to build a lot of graveyards on.
I cry when i look at caskets. Just the thought of you laying in there when your time is up just is so awkward and saddening.
Your car is a box , your workplace is a box , your home is a box ! Bake me in the oven , I am not spending a eternity in a box !
Me either!
ALL DRESSED UP NO WHERE TO GO HA HA
$10,000 for a box to rot in, what a waste.
LOL. . . something tells me that dead don't care what their final "box" looks like.
It seems that most of these caskets are designed to slow down the rotting process. . .but what if faster rotting is the better way to go? After all, even scientists are not 100% sure when the nervous system shuts down completely after death - for all we know dead could be experiencing agonizing pain after death. This in turn means that the faster the body rots, the faster the nerve cells will be destroyed, henceforth, ensuring that the dead do not experience the potential agonizing pain.
Considering all of this, maybe it is best to be buried in feces full of maggots which will be more than happy to disassemble your body including the nervous system.
A lot of these metal caskets are $1500 to $2500, unless you go to the most expensive furneral home in town. Nice wood caskets are about $3000 and if it wood veneer it's less
Because there's money in peoples' grief. All you need is a $50 cardboard box.
@@RickJones222 there's money in anything. That's the beauty of capitalism. You tend to remember painful times in your life more so than happy times. Therefore the financial cost of pain or grief is remembered more than happiness. The average wedding in the US is 25,000 and 50%+- of people will have more than one. However the average funeral cost is roughly 9000 and rarely anyone will have more than one. But the cost of a funeral is often targeted as unfair. I'm not here to say that caskets are a waste of money. That is entirely up to the consumer. But there has to be profit in every aspect of life (or death) for someone to be encouraged to provide the service.
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It’s not the Cough that carries you off, it’s the Coffin they carry you offin.
That's a good one. I never heard it before
I agree, the Clark's hold up better than Wilbert's. When crypts used to be built w/o a gas vent, the vault sometimes exploded from all the decomp. gases that built up inside. Besides most of those gaskets last only a couple of years, it depends on if your loved ones planted you in the low end of the cemetery where the water accumulates.
We have a much smaller privately owned firm in Redford, Twp., Michigan named Superior Casket Company that does the same wonderful job, as well as Astral Industries down in Indiana! The one thing that I really don't understand is why would one want to put such a beautiful furniture grade wooden casket in the ground with their loved one's remains in it? That is probably why most Americans prefer your steel (and other better metal creations) for this type of use! However, no matter what it is made of (even fiberglass or ABS plastic), no casket (even when combined with a concrete vault) is meant to preserve a human body (even if it is embalmed) for any length of time, no matter when Christ's Second Coming happens! If anybody tells anyone otherwise, it is unfair and deceptive business practice!
Superior does good work with good quality products. Batesville is a division of Hil-Rom Industries. Makers of hospital beds. When it's my time I'm going to secure licensing from the Detroit Red Wings and have Superior custom make mine. They can build them quickly and get them to the funeral home on time. Nothing wrong with Batesville but you're going to pay for the name. When I was going to mortuary school our class at CCMS was going on a field trip to Batesville in Indiana. I had an emergency back home that required me to withdraw from school but I ended up as a Forensic Death Scene Investigator for the Medical Examiners Office.
I'm going to look into how I can just be put in a hole and buried-- no vault, no casket, no embalming-- no muss no fuss. I know this can be done in some places. Just let me go back to the earth without poisoning it any more than necessary. Don't know how a burial can be any more beautiful than that.
I'm hoping to be buried in the root all of a tree, so that I can support more life. Imagine if we created forests with our dead instead of creating gardens of stone and toxins.
I have always said that the funeral home business is one true "Recession Proof" job. This is one career that will stay in business till the end of time lol. 5-25-14
customers lol
I can dig that....
Uhh how do you expect people to pay for coffins if there is a recession...
A favorite saying of funeral directors concerning caskets is "Another buried treasure". A $6k casket buried in the ground and no one will ever see it again,what a waste. Caskets are for the living not the dead,the body is going to deteriorate and turn to dust over decades so then you'll have a $6k casket full of dust. Embalming is another waste of money,why embalm,why subject your loved one to that ? Not like it's going to do them any good.
I'm all for cremation and my 2nd choice is a Jewish type burial.No embalming and get me in the ground the same day type of thing,no fancy casket or anything.A man I use to work for owned a chain of funeral homes and he wasn't even a licensed funeral director.When he was asked why he was in the business he said because it was so profitable.That helped open my eyes to the scam.
Alaitain, I'm sorry for your loss. I lost my grandpa a few years ago. I was never really able to get you know him. I'm glad you got to know your daughter so well as to know the perfect casket for her.
Many years ago, my sister in law told me her childhood best friend into adulthood, her first husband died if cancer young in the mid 60s and had his casket done the same silver blue as their 64 Corvette
In some states, you can be buried in just a white sheet if its on your, or family, land. In NC we have that option. There are more and more "green" burial options coming available as folks who are more environmentally minded are starting to die and requesting greener options and smaller footprint options. Check with your local state board of funeral science to see what your state requirements are or drop by your local funeral home and ask. They are required to disclose that to you if asked.
Dean Martin How true.It used to be that you had to be embalmed in Virginia regardless if the family was having a viewing or not. Now because of AIDS, it's an option.
my daughter had a really nice white casket. it was pure as white can be, because she was pure. it matched her burial gown, and flowers..thank u batesville, u all do a perfect caskets..
What people need to remeber is that the funeral is not for the dead. It never has been, is not, nor never will be for the dead. It is, always has been, and always will be for the living.
I would rather work in a mattress factory, dream of sleeping. Building caskets would give me nightmares.
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There are still plenty of folks who opt for traditional burial, myself included. No one in my family has ever been cremated.
It is simply a personal preference. As far as the cost, you simply put aside funds or purchase life insurance. There was a time when people and families in general took pride in giving a loved one a proper funeral/burial service. It is sad to see that dwindling. Funerals are every bit as important as weddings. It shocks me to see and hear the cavalier attitudes of folks regarding their departure from this earth and that of their loved ones. I know a family who went totally against their mother's wishes for her funeral and burial. They cashed in the insurance money and had her cremated. Just awful. This lady was 93 years old and had everything written down to the letter. In fact, her ashes are still sitting in the trunk of her daughter's car.
The body is but a container that is refuse at the moment of death.
any kind of casket is great, especially metal. like the concept of planning ahead.
I wonder if the workers at the manufacturing building find themselves wondering if they are working on a casket they could soon lie in.
Cool thought. I guess they find...
my sister in law, told me her good friends husband died of cancer in the late 60's and her friend had his casket painted the color of their 1964 Corvette . Silverblue
you may think so now, but your family will incur the cost that were not covered which will significantly increase the cost. Depending on what type of pre-need you have you may have only actually payed the service fee of the funeral home or payed for an insurance plan which does not cover every thing as well.
@The391956 The ashes are collected in an urn and the urn can be placed in the family room or inside a niche or tomb in a cemetery. In California, the disposal of the ashes or the placement of the containing urn must be registered with the county office.
Regarding the burial in urban cemeteries, you usually do not require any "test of time" type of casket. In most cemeteries, an outer burial container is required and this blocks most of any leakage.
Even without the OBC, any materials seeped into the ground gets filtered by the ground itself and almost never contaminates the water.
Wow, that's amazing that people dying create such an industry. I always imagined a coffin manufacturer was a tin shed with 4 blokes with hammers.
To get the real scoop on how Americans pay through the nose, when they don't need to, for funerals, read a book by Jessica Mitford, "The American Way of Death Revisited." It is appalling how much people a re ripped off by the funeral industry. I wish it could be outlawed but that isn't going to happen.
I heard that the mafia has a stake in the industry. Don't hold your breath for any change, or you will end up 6 ft under. :-)
I read that book in high school
I want a wicker basket
AHHH!!! SOMETHING TO EXPLODE IN.........
I want to be with Mum (and Dad when he joins Mum) again, and I like the spot where Mum is as it's peaceful, and over looks my home town. I've picked my box, as I said it'll be oak, could have had Maple, but at £1,500, was to expensive, my funeral is all paid for, I've laid down the service order, and picked the hymn, and the music I want played-from a CD- at the end of it and my name and DoB is on the headstone, just a few more things to do like my will, and I'll be sorted.
😄 Cremation is the way to go ...
💕" Rest In Pieces " 🌾
My father helped integrate the robots into Batesville. This video is neat.
Well I don't want people just burying people themselves, or worse, doing home cremation. No one is forced to buy a fancy box you only see for a day. I know a lady, who had quite a bit of money, and she was buried in just sort of cardboard box, wrapped in a white cloth, with no embalming or anything. It was her request. So yes, no one is REQUIRED to buy anything, it's just where society gears you toward. These funeral directors are running businesses, so yes, they are going to try to sell!
Michael Jackson's casket(s) came from this plant. I live in Indiana. The family bought two of them.
Angel Adams ...I did the same thing!!! I was going crazy for my mothers to arrive...
The cementry where I'm going to be buried won't allow metal caskets, so I'll be having oak.
My mom died of terminal cancer. So we planned her funeral before she died. The cost was just a fraction of the regular price. Can't imagine how other people afford the funeral for sudden death! It is like booking an airline ticket few weeks in advance vs. buying a ticket for the next available flight. They charge you a few times more just because you have no choice. You can call that predatory practice too.
I know this may sound sick Wouldnt it be great to put a camera in the casket wow it’s 6 feet under
If you are talking about casket for cremation, there is even cheaper option. Cardboard box! Wood or paper, all turns to ash after the process. However, for burial in urban cemeteries, I believe the caskets are required to stand the test of time to prevent leakage into city ground water and for other sanitary reasons.
Agree with Alan! No worms chomping on me please@
I'm bucking this trend. Opting for a green burial. Naked and wrapped in a cotton shroud and planted on my property. All legal just have to have the plot surveyed and recorded with the county.
Good idea ... 💕
Rock n roll background music as caskets ate being made...lol🤘
I purchased a casket last year from the funeral home. I knew I could buy elsewhere, however when you have to go through the planning of a funeral there isn't much time. And I believe there is nothing wrong with a viewing or funeral. It provides closure and peace of mind for many. You won't have regrets later. For myself I purchased a cremation niche at a mausoleum. I don't like the idea of cremains in a house or closet or getting lost somewhere down the line. Pick a permanent space and leave it
The costs are indeed cheaper if you act *before* death but the waste of real estate remains the same.
The whole issue of casket burial is still merely for the benefit of the living, not the dead.
Why pay for a high dollar casket, vault, etc. cremation is cheeper in the long run.
That's exactly what I want. Just a biodegradable box (I thought they used pine for that reason) I dont want silk lining, I want to my physical body to be used by the earth. Bugs chow down:) That's IF I can have it that way. If I had my true choice, it would be body to soil, skip the box. BUT I think that one's illegal.
LOL I'd guess a couple hundred just for delivery. There are plenty of cheap coffin options out there, and federal law prohibits funeral homes from charging you more if you choose to buy your casket elsewhere and have it delivered to them for use with a funeral at their funeral home. Buying a casket at a funeral home is like buying a grocery item at a gas station rather than a grocery store. You're going to pay more because it's convenient and right there in front of you.
How do they seal the joint between the upper and lower portions of the lid?
Ask any Funeral Director that'll be honest with you. Metal 16 (or what-ever guage) Caskets last only 10 years in the Vault before they rust apart & begin crumbling. That is why they are cheaper than wooden ones.
My husband was burried in a light blue casket it was beautiful Thank you Batesville
I’m just dying for a tour of this facility
Yes, there are affordable caskets and funeral options out there. It's just that society has it drilled into people's heads that they have to have the best and most expensive. Just like with cell phones, everybody has to have an iphone or something equally amazing. Well they don't! I have a flip phone I bought used 3 years ago, and I'm doing just fine! I plan on buying my coffin used too! LOL! Just kidding on that, but you get my point hopefully!
Predatory pricing is EXACTLY what it is. Regardless of what it's for, the end result is the very same. Oddly most people seem to view this issue as being "just business" but when it comes to certain things people come absolutely unglued over it.
Too bad everybody doesn't have the same anger over all types of financial predation because things would sure be a lot better if people didn't simply tolerate BS such as this.
The council/people who are in charge of the cemetry where I will be buried, do not allow metal coffins/caskits to be buried there. No matter, its near the top of a hill, and is dry, and oak lasts quite a long time.
I have a thirty year guarantee on my father casket. If it leaks within that time they will give us a new body.
Doug Morris ***spits coffee out*** lol
@PAL122995 great ambition. The kings and emperors did the same except they didn't have iPods.
Caskets are really for the living, not the dead. The living want their loved one to be buried in as fancy a casket as can be afforded with all the trimmings to go 'round. Casket burial is such a waste of resources not to mention real estate. It is an utter waste of materials in general and in the end only serves the living.
They say it’s a dying trade, but they seem to be making a killing. Some people would kill for something like that, but paying it off could be murder. Customers literally dying to do business with you always, on that you can be dead sure, and you never get a client coming back moaning after they have used their purchase either, even with the stiff competition.
Do these come equipped with wifi?
I didn't know you could get them in so many colors and styles. When I go, I hope I get a nice one that won't embarrass me or anything. But nevertheless, I will try to be grateful and not complain about it.
My understanding is that the dead body is embalmed and supposed to last till eternity as a mummy or something. If the casket falls apart, the bugs and worms will definitely consume the body eventually. So that defeats the purpose of the embalming. I would rather be cremated to ash than take my chance with the maggots.
cplai Embalming is not permanent. It is done to “preserve” the body well enough for funeral services. You actually begin to decay within minutes to hours after you die. Nothing is permanent. The casket will rust or rot eventually. My grandfather was a Funeral Director.
@cplai Most caskets are crushed by the dirt.
And they arent water proof to begin with.
The music would be more appropriate for a video say on BASE jumping or helicopter skiing. Still, something that interested me when it came up on my feed.
Indeed. I know my income certainly does not allow for us to save up for that kind of expense. We also are just trying to put our kids through school, keep them fed, clothed and warm. There is no such thing as 'just save up' for things like that. I think you are right about him being a kid. An adult would be able to understand not everyone can save for such an expense. He also talks down to you if you didn't know Walmart sells coffins but I saw where he was told this right here only 4 days ago!
I love triple blk on black ...like my cars...leather n velvet? Triple shine 18 g or better?
I want a cobalt blue one with lots of chrome accessories and a black velour interior.
Sorry for your loss. May her rest in peace. My mother wanted to be cremated and I guess the funeral home just used a cardboard box or nothing at all. It was really not that important to use because all will just turn into ashes.
The prices on caskets are crazy! I have had to buy a few in the last few years and went online (best price caskets). I was scared at first but man, they took care of us and the caskets were better than we expected, people thought we spent a lot more, that's for sure. I will never let them know I am shopping for a casket elsewhere because they rip you off elsewhere, but once I get their prices, it's on and I am saving and loving it. Just my 2 cents...;-)
Also Walmart has overnight delivery and low prices they also carry Titan caskets
nice...so rosewood or oak?
because they both last a long time.
?......is it hard to even to even pick out your own casket??
Very informative.
You're right and I stand corrected,not all are money grubbers.Guess like any business you can get ripped off or receive good services,all depends.Plus it's up to each individual and their wants or needs.
@cplai Cardboard caskets are not always the answer. If the person is "oversized", a cardboard casket will not be sufficient.
Sorry for your loss.
Hello cplai, thank you for the informative video. I know there are caskets for children and adults, but how many different sizes of caskets are there? Take care.
The bare ground is one size fits all.
Gotta ask....whats the employee discount?
You can get cardboard coffins as well, they are if you are being burnt, and that to me is a no no.
You can also be embalmed "greenly" now. Duncan Chemical makes a green embalming fluid which contains no carcinogens in it like Formalin or any of those.
I’m actually going to build my own wood gasket. My family doesn’t like the idea of me doing it
Hell yeah! Make it from cast iron with a lead bottle lol!🤪
Whare did this half a casket lid idea come from. I've always seen caskets with full lids on them.
I'm not sure where the idea came from, but the "full lid" design your talking about is called a "Full Couch". Casket design popularity depends of what region of the world your in, religion, and ethnicity. In the U.S. market, full couch caskets are increasingly rare to see compared to 30 years ago. Over the last few decades, Full couch caskets only make up ~ 3% of my company's sales. The vast majority of the caskets we make are what the industry calls a "Perfection Couch". It's not actually cut in half, it's divided 60% on the viewing-(head)-end and 40%, that remains closed, on the foot-end to fully expose the torso and up, resulting in a "Perfect" viewing ratio.
Cool video
You can be cremated for as little as $500. I don't know why people are so anxious to enrich those who profit from death. Spending an extra several thousand is not going to bring your loved one back.
Cremation without a service where I'm from is around 2600 my company can build a 20ga metal casket for $420 but that is before a funeral home marks it up.
Thank you ! Are you a member ?
I'm actually thinking, since I'm divorced and single, kids are grown basically, Maybe I should go set it all up , get a stone etc. A few years ago grave stones were about $400. Just bought one last year for my brother and it was $750 for a basic flat stone
@kambridge967 Thanks!
Quite a tour ..in Batesville IN Todd is NOT related. Been there ..I was really impressed with the embroidery machines
rosewood last's long also....
it looks nice n its nice to me..
i like rosewood.
Why do you need a casket to last? Are they reusable?
@kambridge967 The casket being so nice isn't really for the dead person. It's for the living, the ones who the dead leave behind. It gives the living people comfort to see their loved ones burred in class.
arent coffins supposed to decay under ground ??
Why did it close down?? Because it's not there anymore.
I wonder if they'll let you use the "Lay Away" plan ?😅
Yes poor choice of words on my part but I am sure the deceased has to be in some sort of container before going into a crematorium. Could be wrong I never worked in the funeral business.
I am wanting one off these caskets honestly I will be a good customer but when I am dead will I need to still pay for it ??????
and what about the CEOs Paul Bearer and the Undertaker, rest in peace
Maybe but no-way would I do that, the funeral director has a range of coffins at their head office, so I was able to see what the oak 'Avon' one looked like for real, you can also have wicker coffins over here, but I'm not a greenie.
This might be a dumb question, but we have 7.6 billion people on this world, and all these graveyards, I mean like, how do these people find all this room to make these huge graveyards, like I say probably by year 2100 is there even going to be anymore room to make another graveyard on earth, idk I might just be thinking the world is small to build a lot of graveyards on.
Yes, I've been a member since 1995.
Yep, a choice of the two. Nope, you can even purchase it if you wish, lots of coffins/caskets on the web to choose from.
@kambridge967 And when your home-made job falls apart while being carried by the pall-bearers?
@pawnworks
That is so true, why not with the weeds!!!!
I want a all black casket when i die and silver trimings of some kind
That's one delivery truck you don't want to see pull up to your place!