How To Lift A Casket | Little Miss Funeral

[@danlindberg1917]

Thank you! Humor is always appreciated!

[@People_R_Foolish]

Keith is mighty fine. He needs to be in more videos.

[@alixhice]

0:32 Keith self consciously backs away. LOL

[@bromeliad11]

I like the trash pail on Keith's head..to funny.

[@zingwilder9989]

Wow, I never thought that I would see the day when picking up a casket would be video worthy.

[@jrw5831]

Love the humor in this video..........................

[@emmadalrymple4102]

While I found this very informative as always, it was also good to see you having some lighter moments. Keith was amusing. Love your channel!

[@garypixler7310]

Great Video! As always light and airy with some fun.

[@jenny-DD]

Love the Bloopers

[@eo7744]

I loved the bloopers 🖤🖤🖤

[@jacquelynu.2375]

Loved the bloopers

[@treatmenice1564]

I thought this was an awesome video! It felt so good to have a laugh at the end, honestly, you made my day!

[@JamesSmith-u9c]

I work at a funeral home for Tom and it was good to see how other people do it basically we do it the same way you and your video audio

[@zachlafleur6651]

The third method would be the best (and only really safe one), to use with a heavy wooden casket, especially an oversized casket or one that is made with a thick base. Other than that, you would need more than two people to move it between church truck and bier, display room ,prep room, to and from funeral coach ,etc. This rose gold casket looks to be an oversized metal casket, possibly 16 gauge sheet metal or even a semi precious metal product such as copper, with elements of a wood casket such as the corner hardware in metal instead of carved or turned wood.

[@chrisfrance4076]

I love your videos you are so informative and adorable. Also we need more Buckethead....I mean Keith!

[@boobleeboo9947]

Yes Kieth doesn’t want to be there! Bloops great!

[@goofygav8131]

Imagine the coffin dance in this

[@BeeBeeimonotfact]

I love the bloopers. I was wondering how you use the jacks and you got it so perfectly lined up.

[@Gemashke]

What the heck was that weird robotic voice when you were walking to the other casket jack? Keith is hilarious!!! :)

[@davidmckinney6577]

My local funeral home doesn't uses beir they just use a church truck the kind that fold. They used to use a coffee table in the eighties and just quit

[@zachlafleur6651]

I believe that this is where the casket bier concept originated from. When funerals used to be held at people's homes, what would the coffin or casket be placed on for a wake or visitation? Most likely a very sturdy well built coffee table. All that was done was to evolve this into a purpose built fixture built to handle a few hundred pounds and add heavy duty casters to make it easily movable with even the heaviest weight that it could carry and this is how biers became commonplace. True, church trucks are lightweight and strong, most are foldable with triangular diamonded accordion type construction, but without a surround or a heavy duty tablecloth over them don't look all that good for a visitation.

[@David-jd5lp]

You gotta just love your smile

[@theorangecircle1066]

Good video. Informative. Like the outtakes.

[@Donz112nz]

Aww Keith appreciation post 🖤

[@davidp2389]

LOVED the Blooper Reel👍😉😛✔✔✔

[@scottschmidt2395]

I named our casket jacks "Hans and Franz". People 40ish and older probably understand this

[@kristinazubic9669]

They gonna pump *pause* you up

[@AbsoluteSeo]

Do you have a video on what the income is like? I'm 18 and going to college soon for funeral service and mortuary science. I'm kind of nervous about everything and you're videos are a big help for me.

[@atg3569]

Eliseo Calderon can’t remember which video but she talks about how it’s a job where you make enough to get by. It’s a job which you do to help people if you get me. I’m 17 and I’m looking into apprenticeships in the funeral industry. Good luck

[@alleycat1117]

Why didn't the bier go under the casket when you had it sitting on the jacks?Do they make differt size jacks?

[@MorrisMabalot]

I've seen some vids on people doing DIY wakes at their homes. What are your thoughts on that? Is there any kind of permission a person needs to get to do that kind of stuff at home?

[@jordanthompson8616]

Would You have to reposition the Body when you get the casket adjusted or does the body not move?

[@zachlafleur6651]

You might have to, but it all depends on how much the casket was moved and how level you were able to keep it while moving it. Usually, once the features are set, the body is embalmed and restored, it will stay in the pose that it is set in due to rigor mortis until that goes away a few days after death (and by then, they are usually buried or cremated). One mildly distressing thing that I experienced as a pallbearer at my aunt Pat Duchaine's funeral is that I felt and heard her body shift in her casket as we were loading her into the funeral coach. Since she died in Florida and was prepared there for burial in Michigan, she only had a Mass Of The Resurrection without an open casket visitation before in Michigan. I was going to ask if we could have opened the casket to make sure that she was positioned appropriately after that feeling and sound, but since we were outside the church and about to load up the coach, that wouldn't be correct, so I just let that go. So yeah, a body can shift and possibly have to be repositioned in a casket, particularly when said casket is carried at an angle such as for going up or down a staircase at a church before or after a funeral. By the way, my aunt was dead for six days when she was buried, so rigor mortis had probably left by then and that was why I had that feeling and sound.

[@gregortizjr2984]

Got a question how heavy are the casket with somebody inside I got a funeral service this week for a loveone

[@alanwalker7265]

Good one, thanks for sharing.

[@pattymccallum6924]

Interesting video.

[@melindarose]

I have a question. I have two brothers who passed away. My first brother’s funeral was 2 weeks after his death, and he still looked like himself in his casket. Dead, but still himself. He died of opioid overdose, and heavily used heroine. The mortuary staff told us he likely looked good because heroine preserves you after death. My second brothers funeral was 2 days ago. It was held exactly 1 week after his death and viewing him was very traumatic for my family and I. He was very bloated, and double his size in his face, belly, neck, arms everything. He was also leaking a red tinted fluid that was on his casket pillow, what is this? He was an alcoholic, and died for reasons related to alcohol abuse. My question is, does drugs or alcohol, or a healthy lifestyle before death affect how the body starts to decompose? How does factors like that affect how a person looks in their casket? What factors DO come into play on how a body will look?

[@poppycrew7013]

I am so sorry about the loss of your brothers. You are in my thoughts.

[@zachlafleur6651]

The red tinted fluid was most likely either blood that wasn't removed during the embalming process (not enough embalming fluid used for his body), or it could have been the embalming fluid itself where it was seeping from the injection site (not enough sealant was used at this site), or too much fluid was replaced into his body (what they would call overly juiced in the profession). Anyhow, usually alcohol dehydrated a person's body, so it is hard to say as to why his body was bloated and seeping instead, other than a hard to embalm and restore case. As for heroin preserving the first brother, that is something that I never knew, but wouldn't ever want to find out first hand, from personal experience, if you know what I mean. I didn't have any experience with that when I was younger or even now, but had far too much experience with alcohol when I was younger and am eternally grateful that I quit drinking when I did. Sorry to hear about two losses in your family, as I would be sure that you would be about mine as to where within the last year I have lost several friends, Church parishioners, one of my mother's cousins and my mother herself. It is bad enough when it is illness or natural causes, but drugs and alcohol, sometimes that is just too much.

[@johnblaesel5493]

Very pretty casket!

[@zachlafleur6651]

Also, really close to matching the bier that is being used. It is quite a complimentary setup.

[@tropicalpresley]

Question.... Have you ever watched the show SIX FEET UNDER? If so what go you think of it ?

[@LittleMissFuneral]

Cori Medina I actually have never seen it! So many people said it’s great. One of these days I’ll watch it!

[@zachlafleur6651]

I have seen all of that show on DVD from my local library back in 2008, after the first run of the show between 2001 and 2005 because I really never had cable TV, let alone this premium channel HBO, but while really opening up what does go on behind the scenes in the funeral industry, there are a lot of dysfunctional elements added for entertainment value. Since it was an HBO original series, the standards are quite low when it comes to showing sex on TV in situations that just pop up out of nowhere, so if that is something that would bother you, just be aware that they tend to do that on that show and others such as the True Blood series about vampires in the southern U.S.

[@tritonplayz1020]

I’m from Rochester and I currently am looking heavily into the funeral industry do you have an recommendations for education? It seems the best thing in New York State is Hudson valley

[@LittleMissFuneral]

Triton Playz Keith took online classes through McAllister in NYC and liked it. That might be a good option.

[@tim4-p3f]

How much do caskets weigh?

[@damionrowe9763]

Thanks for the tip

[@cynthiathomas6690]

What's up Keith. Nice to see your partner in crime again.

[@1joshjosh1]

If I die and go to heaven I hope the angel that guides me up there looks like you. 😍

[@GwendolynWheeler2011]

Could you do more book reviews plz? I just finished the last one and I LOVED it!!

[@susanpizano6680]

Hi I was watching one of your other videos from year ago and I wanted to ask you a question about embalming what if my loved one was interested in contributing to her body to signs that you understand what I mean she wants to be work done and used for science purposes can you let me know how that works

[@brianabelleg]

and how can i direct a funeral because i been wanting to be a funeral director

[@davidwhite8589]

Need to go to mortuary school and then serve under a licensed professional for a year, then pass state and national tests.

[@brianabelleg]

@@davidwhite8589 ok then

[@davidp2389]

Those casket jacks don't look very sturdy... Have you ever had a collapse?

[@robertbrooks7001]

They don't collapse if used correctly.

[@zachlafleur6651]

I know, they look like a heavy duty pair of step stools or part of a work platform. If they are made out of aluminum and it is thick enough, they should be both light weight and strong and shouldn't collapse (unless really overloaded, such as a heavy weight hardwood casket or especially a particleboard casket with a wood veneer on it).

[@Singersavannah0]

How much does a casket weigh without a body in there

[@Booze129]

Singer Savannah I’d say 200 lbs maybe 400 lbs if it’s higher-end casket

[@Singersavannah0]

Booze129 yikes that’s a lot and imagine there being a person in there it probably weighs 10x more

[@jgwalling]

Average is 240 lb. Some cheaper ones are 200 pounds

[@MikeMercury]

how heavy is an empty casket on average

[@LittleMissFuneral]

About 150lbs for a 20 gauge

[@henryfreeman7748]

Was it empty, or does it make a difference

[@rehpotsirhc21]

id say empty i don't think they would be messing around with a casket with a person in it like this lol

[@LittleMissFuneral]

Yes it was an empty casket

[@MikeMercury]

have you ever dropped a casket

[@limeyosu2000]

casket on a beer now that would require some skills!

[@mrswilliamstoyou3325]

Bier

[@larryulery3729]

Thanks 😊 little Ms funeral

[@KennyGorehound]

I see the appeal of wooden coffins.

[@zachlafleur6651]

Oh yes, unless they have a base of solid wood about four inches thick or they are made of an engineered wood such as particleboard. If they are either, then they will be very heavy. Another bad thing about wood caskets is that since wood is porous (even after a while no matter how well it is finished with varnish or polyurethane), I have never seen a rubber gasketed wood casket, they just don't make them for that very reason. Unlike metal caskets, the low end ones are not gasketed, the mid to high end ones are, but not with wood, no matter the price point.

[@brianabelleg]

keith is just to shy he needs to stop being shy

[@mikewinn1484]

Why doesn't Keith want to be on the camera? He's very photogenic.

[@briankoch6937]

How do you handle obese people with oversized caskets

[@АндрейШуляренко-л3ц]

Очень интересно и познавательно.

[@HarborGuy]

Why do we need know this - the funeral home does this

[@custerranch]

Unless you have a new job at a funeral home, you don't need to know it. But this is excellent information for those of us who do.

[@Blazingflashover]

Bloopers were funny, now is there an actually head and feet end to caskets or not really?

[@LittleMissFuneral]

Chadsbee Ramrod yes, especially if the casket is a “half couch” meaning the bottom half stays closed. If the casket top fully opens, you could lay out a person either way if needed.

[@Blazingflashover]

Little Miss Funeral I find this all fascinating, when I was younger I wanted to go to mortuary school however my mother did not want me to become a funeral director, because she did not want the reminder of what’s to come looking out the kitchen window and seeing a hearse sitting in the driveway. Now that I’m older I’m still thinking about going to school for my FD license. I can actually say I’ve seen it all when it comes to the deceased. I’m so desensitized I don’t think I would become a good funeral director though.

[@zachlafleur6651]

Another hint: the head end of a half couch is usually slightly longer than the foot end. Very important from a religious perspective when it is all set to be interred into the grave (so that the person rises looking to the east toward the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem). Other clues are the placement of the crank down opening (always at the foot end), and I believe this would be true with the reverse panel half couch as well?

[@dawnearly1600]

No offense to Keith , Little Miss did better by herself .

[@beverlydavid581]

I love your videos, but please speak slower. I don't want to miss your important information.

[@foxmccloud7055]

How much does a casket weigh with and without the body?