Casket - Science of Death

How caskets are manufactured.

[@Tehgoat]

$10,000 for a box to rot in, what a waste.

[@radkonpsygami7634]

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.

[@califdad4]

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]

Because there's money in peoples' grief. All you need is a $50 cardboard box.

[@andybulldog79]

@@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.

[@craigking4880]

Cat

[@allandanforth9516]

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 !

[@timnewman245]

Me either!

[@MrOldshadow1]

ALL DRESSED UP NO WHERE TO GO HA HA

[@EmdrGreg]

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.

[@WilliamRing45]

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.

[@MrJuep76]

It’s not the Cough that carries you off, it’s the Coffin they carry you offin.

[@Gregsmith001]

That's a good one. I never heard it before

[@zachlafleur6651]

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!

[@dickcoughlin8338]

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.

[@Dank951]

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.

[@AmericanPride1234]

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

[@mrPregabalin]

customers lol

[@milojanis4901]

I can dig that....

[@AllenHanPR]

Uhh how do you expect people to pay for coffins if there is a recession...

[@rexbernard2805]

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.

[@andybulldog79]

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.

[@Baldgol4]

I have a thirty year guarantee on my father casket. If it leaks within that time they will give us a new body.

[@corlos19]

Doug Morris ***spits coffee out*** lol

[@blakesteele7800]

I would rather work in a mattress factory, dream of sleeping. Building caskets would give me nightmares.

[@babylove8541]

🤣🤣

[@robertm2000]

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.

[@cplai]

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. :-)

[@billblount5955]

I read that book in high school

[@jamescalifornia2964]

😄 Cremation is the way to go ... 💕" Rest In Pieces " 🌾

[@MrDevlin350]

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.

[@viamilitaris011]

I US everything is circus . Sick. nation.

[@AaronCsc]

What a waste of metal

[@cutefeet63]

Aaron C. How's it a waste of metal?

[@humanperson9947]

In 1000 people will dig it up, it wont be a waste

[@texasborn2720]

Where does metal come from ? So it is going back to where it came from. Not to mention metal on buildings, cars rust also.

[@melmack2003]

What a waste of money!

[@Mike-ji8ez]

what waste of metal, money etc... not to mention the landfill issue.

[@paperchain1239]

I want a wicker basket

[@ThePhenomm]

I know this may sound sick Wouldnt it be great to put a camera in the casket wow it’s 6 feet under

[@chry57]

AHHH!!! SOMETHING TO EXPLODE IN.........

[@thatguy1080]

Grave yards are a waste of space to me. What's wrong with burning bodies?

[@Mdriver1981]

Jacob Beam, different cultures, different traditions.

[@denniscurless904]

+Jacob Beam How much fuel does it take to cremate someone? Compare!

[@billgish3424]

Its called "choice."

[@MrDevlin350]

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.

[@thebakerman1]

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.

[@kndl1919]

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.

[@dustermouse]

Why pay for a high dollar casket, vault, etc. cremation is cheeper in the long run.

[@wnaburgencesante]

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.

[@Thescienceguyonafly]

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.

[@cynthiathomas5443]

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.

[@songbirdy]

If you buy the casket at a funeral home you will get so ripped off. This industry needs so much more regulation. Who says you have to be buried this way? And it has to cost so much? They are the greediest fuckers in the world.

[@oldman6487]

its funny you should say that , I was talking to a funeral director I know and told him how Costco considered selling caskets (and I am not kidding you) he laughed and said where are they going to sell them next, Walmart

[@pbp125]

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.

[@funeralangel8262]

Good idea ... 💕

[@bubblinbrownsugar616]

I wonder if the workers at the manufacturing building find themselves wondering if they are working on a casket they could soon lie in.

[@jamesvalentimfaria]

Cool thought. I guess they find...

[@view1st]

Ah, capitalism. As always, creating fake desires, needs and wants and then wasting valuable resources in meeting this pointless need to consume unnecessary things.

[@Puzzoozoo]

The cementry where I'm going to be buried won't allow metal caskets, so I'll be having oak.

[@tempo1889]

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.

[@thebakerman1]

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.

[@Serostern]

@cplai Most caskets are crushed by the dirt. And they arent water proof to begin with.

[@alfie4troy]

This seems a terrible waste of metal and wood just to bury or burn there must be a way less wasteful the world is running out of resources and were doing this !!

[@califdad4]

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

[@elaine5737]

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.

[@Littlebigbot]

The body is but a container that is refuse at the moment of death.

[@fiendishfeline]

I think that caskets that are not wood and don't rot should be outlawed. I also think that we need to find another way to keep the body from rotting before the funeral other than embalming with formaldehyde. It's bad for the environment and we are bad enough for the environment when we are alive and it's selfish to do this after you are dead! Why not just throw them in the ground and cover it with dirt, let the maggots do the rest?

[@bdurie1198]

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.

[@jesusman1able]

Can you believe how much money that the people put in the ground. Whats the sense in it! Money, money, money, money, money, that is what I think its all about, and its stupid to put thousands of dollars in the ground. Just my thought''''''

[@songbirdy]

Michael Jackson's casket(s) came from this plant. I live in Indiana. The family bought two of them.

[@bnilo]

Caskets are a dying business (ba da bing) Cremate my dead ass...................

[@gglenn991]

😂😂

[@gglenn991]

That should be on freakin tee shirt mane Awesome

[@WTV2319]

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.

[@califdad4]

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

[@cplai]

@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.

[@TheAussieStig30]

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.

[@Puzzoozoo]

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.

[@oldman6487]

and what about the CEOs Paul Bearer and the Undertaker, rest in peace

[@lscgoddess98]

It's about going to a place to visit n place flowers ..what's wrong with ppl so nasty about those who go the extra as last gift.

[@jinjinb528]

Rock n roll background music as caskets ate being made...lol🤘

[@billhawes2600]

Agree with Alan! No worms chomping on me please@

[@MRO1970]

any kind of casket is great, especially metal. like the concept of planning ahead.

[@andrewcrane2786]

That is wasting money to build those beautiful caskets that going to rust rotting in the ground.. the company doesn't care if those caskets going rust rotting in the ground. Its waste of time. Its better off making wood casket. Or box like they've did back in the days in the early 1900. It's was wooden box.. harriet tubman got buried in wooden box when she died

[@RSBSTEADICAM]

What a waste of materials, manpower, energy and effort.

[@seawyatt]

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.

[@bobtul]

arent coffins supposed to decay under ground ??

[@johnnymensi1865]

I’m actually going to build my own wood gasket. My family doesn’t like the idea of me doing it

[@MH-WM]

Hell yeah! Make it from cast iron with a lead bottle lol!🤪

[@califdad4]

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

[@MrJuep76]

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.

[@AllenHanPR]

I understand Metal is a great material. But, doesn't sound very environmentally friendly.

[@michaelpearson6746]

Key Words: STASIS POD...ODIN...OVERDOSE IN...MUSIC...SUM ICE...FANGS..FLAG SANG...VAMPIRE...I REV AMP...PATRIOT...ROT A PIT

[@jacquelinekezema7586]

Really passes me off when the sound is too low on something I want to watch. So not watching

[@bruceliggett8036]

Right, I couldn’t hear a dam thing

[@billblount5955]

Beltsville also owns. Hillrom they make the hospital beds and heafwall units next time you visit someone in a hospital look around Hillrom has lots of stuff on the patient rooms they make money on you from birth to death

[@DivinityzBeAsT]

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.

[@cplai]

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.

[@Puzzoozoo]

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.

[@Puzzoozoo]

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.

[@cplai]

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.

[@ГеоргДжанхотов]

Человек рождён на земле и должен быть погребён в неё и приходя на магилу,ты понемаешь,что он там,а не превращён в пепел перемешанный ,от другова человека и не к пеплу приходить же на магилу,тяжко назвать..я НЕ СМОГ БЫ ПРИХОДИТЬ К ПЕПЛУ А ТАК НАЗЫВАЕМУЮ МАГТЛУ, ТАМ НЕТ ЧЕЛОВЕКА А ПЕПЕЛ КАКОЙТО И НЕ ФАКТ,ЧТО ВАШЬ РОДСТВЕННИК,ЭЛЕМЕНТАРНО МОЖЕТ,НА ПОФИГ РАСЫПАЮ,ВСЁ РОВНО ТИПА НЕПОЙМУТ,ПО ЭТОМУ,ЛУЧШЕ ХАРАНИТЬ ТЕЛО,А НЕ ПЕПЕЛ,ЧЁРТ ЗНАЕТ КАКОВА ЧЕЛОВЕКА В БАНОЧЬКИ,ЭТО Я СЧИТАЮ ПАХАБНО К УМЕРШИМ...Америка и европа ,я считаю,не правильно делает,не почеловечиске...

[@Puzzoozoo]

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.

[@cplai]

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.

[@cplai]

I think California requires you to declare how you dispose of the cremains. You can dump in the ocean or put in an urn above your fireplace. But they need to record your intention.

[@cplai]

@PAL122995 great ambition. The kings and emperors did the same except they didn't have iPods.

[@greenrefrigerator]

Make that 50 posts in only 4 days. This kid obviously likes to talk and has appointed himself the burial ambassador. Your are right though. He talks to you like he knows you when he doesn't. The really funny thing is you actually agreed with him in the beginning yet he still managed to turn things around and start shit with you, and all over nothing! There are just some people out there that if you don't agree with everything they say they will talk a lot of shit to you like this kid has done.

[@thebakerman1]

Because many people don't have the extra cash laying around to pay for their death expenses BEFORE it happens. Most people have insurance that only costs a fraction of money every month so they choose to go that route. It's simple economics. You seem to be challenging me as to how I intend to be disposed of when I die. Not that it's anyone's business but I will be cremated when I go, placed in an urn and kept on a mantle in my home. You can't get any "greener" than that. Is this satisfactory?

[@RetroWaveDave84]

You mean they havent outsourced the manufacture of these to Mexico yet? Seriously though, i would love working in a place like that. I love working with steel, with modern CNC machinery and welding. I'd rather do that than sit in back of a desk. Sadly those kind of jobs are just so hard to find these days. Thats life though. Err, in this case death.

[@gaymalesmokerfetish]

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!

[@skn9895]

I want a cobalt blue one with lots of chrome accessories and a black velour interior.

[@KnoxBlondie]

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.

[@WilliamRing45]

The bare ground is one size fits all.

[@MrDevlin350]

Well they are in business to make money,I personally know several in the business one guy I went to school with and use to know very well.Doesn't really matter as my personal choice is cremation and even that is not cheap.One way or the other they will get you.

[@wnaburgencesante]

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.

[@gaymalesmokerfetish]

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!

[@thebakerman1]

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.

[@Puzzoozoo]

You can get cardboard coffins as well, they are if you are being burnt, and that to me is a no no.

[@markhoezee6292]

When things are slow at my shop we say sales are dead! never dead a5 batesville!

[@cplai]

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.

[@deannweaver7881]

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.

[@aeyb701]

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.

[@angelmarandola7987]

I want a all black casket when i die and silver trimings of some kind

[@fob1xxl]

I wonder if they'll let you use the "Lay Away" plan ?😅

[@esechucote52]

so much peacefulness and love and joy at births and at deaths! it's the in-between where it's just pure evil people where satan shows his control over people going to the pits of hell with satan himself all of his servants' followers evildoers.

[@mrhamburger6936]

What is the big coffin say to the small coffin stop your coughing

[@frlouiegoad4087]

Cremation.

[@BulletNoseBetty]

@cplai Cardboard caskets are not always the answer. If the person is "oversized", a cardboard casket will not be sufficient.

[@tempo1889]

Probably cardboard I think it is illegal to just put a deceased person on a conveyor belt and into a crematorium.

[@danclark1348]

I expected science of death, not manufacturing. 👻💀. I guess there's a no return policy, or one year warranty.

[@HarborGuy]

I always wonder what the bottom looks like ..

[@zara8263]

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 ??????

[@TheLastSpartan04]

whats up with the soundtrack to this? its a casket video not a goddamn orange county chopper episode

[@fiendishfeline]

It's stupid and selfish to be buried in a casket that won't rot. People are selfish and stupid!