thank you for sharing the truth the US is very messed up about this issue! we have to put our loved ones in these metal boxes with extra protection! my entire family that is deceased has been put in simple wooden coffins and cremated, still with viewings. This whole idea that you need to save the body, is complete and utter sales bullshit! sorry when you die that's it view then get rid of the body! this whole idea of hey your loved one will be looking good in this is stupid!
I should have taken a picture! When my father-in-law passed the funeral director was singing the praises of this type of casket and actually was attempting to sell it as that type. I pulled out my electronic device and calculated 5 years out and asked him if that date worked for him. The look I got was priceless as he asked what I was talking about! I told him that if he wanted us to pay more for the type of guarantees he was claiming that I expected him to pull up the casket at his expense to prove it was worth the money! So, does this date work for you? He was not expecting that reaction to his sales plan!
But it will bother your family who will have to deal with your body after your casket explodes in its mausoleum or ground and your fluids are leaking out of the mausoleum RU-vid it happens all the time your parents go to your mausoleum to see you and your fluids are leaking down
@@zbpauley in the mausoleum yes I see it as a problem, however in the ground less likely my casket will ever resurface but I do understand your point. Since my original post I have considered cremation as a far less expensive alternative
As I heard from a funeral director friend of mine that in a sealer casket the body will basically liquify... Meaning the casket would turn into a container of soupy remains...Or when enough gasses build up in the casket the lip will pop off the casket. And if entombed in a Mausoleum fluids will leak out.
Kaitlin Doughery brought this up! she is a funeral director of many years and puts down the whole save the body concept! I do too, in the UK 80% of people are cremated. The industry here is like used car sales people you need this stainless steel box to show you love your loved one! really! at least a used car has a use!
that's so interesting, I think that recently, in a coffin discovered in Alexandria, Egypt, they were expecting mummies but all they found was liquefied remains
@@limeyosu2000 sad I placed both mother and father in stainless steel sealer caskets, the Greyson Batesville with the polymer vault so no rust at all. Now wish I had done differently.
Thank you for your honesty. I can remember many years ago, I had an uncle that passed and the Funeral director tried to sell my Mom a casket with an bed with innerspring. I asked him If he knew how stupid he sounded trying to make a dead person more comfortable.
Love your truthful video. In the last 3 years we had 3 funerals and they try to such you dry and the worst time. Why make the living feel like they have to put on this big show for everyone to see. I don’t want to be put into a big jewelry box because that’s what a casket reminds me of. Jewelry boxes for the died. Even in death some people have to show others that they have more money or things then others. I am not saying don’t do it but just use common sense.
Sorry to say but it is a waste of money funeral directors will talk you into buying a seal casket knowing it won't protect the body inside it water an or moisture will get in that casket an if the casket is placed in a vault that will fill up with water...
I've worked in a funeral home. The casket is the focal point in the funeral-of course with the body in it. There's another silver casket (just behind the sealer displayed) I remember selling to families many years ago. The silver casket is non-sealer with cheaper materials and finishes but does the job. The sealer casket just looks nicer for presentation. There's also a difference in price-probably $1,000. Sealers will only deter the elements from entering the casket. I wasn't paid on commission, but would inform families that the casket showroom and a car dealership showroom are entirely different. Their loved ones would be seen in the selected casket for 1-2 days, and will be buried thereafter. I would also inform the family the terms of the contract services will need to be defrayed 4 hours prior or there would be no service. Sealer caskets are nicer but a strain on budgets and a status symbol of sorts in certain communities. There are only a very few who get to see a body after exhumation. Over time, mold usually takes over the body and the unit. Who would want to see that?
This isn’t always true. My cousin died in 1962 at age 7. She was buried and then her parents had her exhumed to be cremated in 2010. Her body looked the same as the day she was buried. In Michigan it’s law to put casket into a vault when buried under ground. It was amazing that she hadn’t decomposed. The funeral director said this isn’t shocking.
@@MrG2U73 google the Big Bopper exhumed. He was buried about 50 yrs in Texas and funeral director said he looked great. His son was born a few months after his death and after exhumation he got to go look at his father. Very good story.
In the first place, why have a half of lid casket when having a full lid casket is a much better choice if you don't want elements entering inside whare the dead body is at. Who came up with this half a casket lid stuff anyway? Its silly, and it's cheap! Go for the full lid casket, it's a better deal, Lucille. All my family and relatives were buried in a full lid casket.
When you drop the extra dough to seal your casket, you create an anaerobic environment. The digestive bacteria and enzymes that inhabit your gut continue their work only instead digesting your food, they digest you. Your internal liquify, eventually spilling into the casket. The decomposition gas pressure since they cannot escape continues to rise to increase in pressure until eventually in some cases, they just explode. Worth the extra $300? I think so! 👍
Thank you for your honesty. When my Daddy died in September, I was made to believe just as you had said , plus also that he would NOT decay as fast. If what you are telling us the general people is true that I will forever be haunted by what I actually didn’t know... I do have a question though does the vault keep the body dry unlike a grave liner?? This all can be very confusing, or does the glue when it gets wet mot stick and let elements in the casket??
Metal casket will rot and rust from the outside in. Even a concrete burial vault will not keep out the water. Concrete is porous and water will enter and help deteriorate the casket.
I want mine super glued or some high strength epoxy used. Set the casket on a pad of concrete and then pour concrete over it all. I should be good to go for the sun going nova in a few billion years.
I know that rubber seal doesn't make the casket watertight or airtight with the little locking hook on the lids they aren't much and not strong and the gasket is barely glued down to the casket it pulls up so easy
My Mom is being buried in the cheapest casket available. (I know I'm going tobeembarrassed). I don't think she's overly worried about whether or not. She's going to decompose quickly or not. As for me, I'm being cremated and scattered. So I won't have to worry about it. Have a blessed day everyone
The person is deceased with enough time the body will decompose no matter the protection As a side note that picturesque scene on the inner lid is a waste it will fade over time just like the coloring on lid
Even though looking at caskets and all that stuff is not pleasant, it is important to get all the buying and planning done. Instead of buying through the ‘ripoff’ people at the mortuary or cemetery, you can buy caskets at these cheaper at casket warehouses in strip malls. As need delivery. P.S. I learned the hard way and bought at the cemetery. My wife 4 1/2 years ago. The funeral was paid for because we paid for it 30+ years ago. Advice from grandpa. Sealed or unsealed, YOUR DEAD
I can talk sadly from experience. My partner was buried in a sealed (Gasket) casket.Although embalmed. Exhumed two years later for an autopsy, and in the report was in perfect condition. My advice from real life is go for a sealed casket. This video is miss-informing. P.S. It was noted that the casket interior also was in a perfect state, with no staining or penetration of any kind.
Frankly, most of us will not be waking up once inside (hopefully not, unless maybe you have a connection to Transylvania AND THE VLAD FAMILY) it really won't matter much. 😂😂😂😂
A casket is usually places in a concrete vault then put in the ground and never to be seen again meanwhile the occupant really doesn't care . I told my wife to just have me cremated and flush my ashes down the toilet . All of this is for the living not the dead anyways.
There are monks in Iowa that make simple yet very beautiful wooden caskets as well as octagonally-shaped coffins. I wouldn't mind being laid to rest in one of them when I die.
It seems to be a theory that cemeteries break the seal of a casket before it is entombed. I have witness many families seeing their loved one entombed, the outer part sealed followed by the final closure of the outer marble plague & never saw such action, so how can this be fully explained because waiting for a family to leave the premises can make this attempt nearly impossible once the sealant hardens. The cemetery staff wouldnt have a family know this dark secret to prevent burping caskets & possible plagues becoming a bit opened thanks to the buildup of gases in the body.
Caskets use gaskets are rubber.. like the ones around your car door... which overtime rot and leak... if buried they don't bother to penetrate the gaskets... buried in a public mausoleum is different.. they will to prevent the caskets from blowing apart from being sealed after few years.. which does happen... sometimes they even prop the casket door open in there or put adsorbent material inside..
@@titanicwhiz entombment, once they slide the casket in & out of sight where the have a device to penetrate sounds logical but again the families are unaware of this. I know gaskets overtime breaks down esp. If a body is not properly interred.
I’ve heard stories of Drilling holes in the Bottom of the casket before putting them in A mausoleum. I just want A natural Type Burial. My Body did it’s job time to rot.
@@janeordway4841 i hear you, if thats your choice. Truth be told a body can only hold up for a bit depending on the preserves used, not your typical egyptian method.
Caskets have locks built in them. And after the body is locked in the casket, they take a Allen wrench to the casket. It's permately sealed, ain't nobody gettin in there without the key to unlock the casket or an allen wrench. Besides, by law, your also required to purchase a vault that your casket is buried into, and once that gasket on the vault lid is on the top and the dirt in onto of that lid, it also has a gasket that seals that casket in that vault permately. Now, if the family members want their relatives exhumed, you have to have a court order and legalities to exhume that vult and casket and pull that casket out of the vault and yiu also will need protection clothing and gas masks and oxygen because of the diseases that are prevalent and are in there with the decomposing body. Safty has no quitting time.
I know that their are larger caskets for larger people but how are morbidly obese (600lb) people carried from the funeral home to the gravesite? Thank you!
I am NOT an EV type pusher BUT caskets are giant crap messes that never rot. I want to be swathed in linen and some home grown flowers tossed in the hole To have a painting on the inside is as useless as tits on a bore hog. Clean burials need to be pushed instead of those monstrous vaults that never compost Hey that’s a thought
good grief. What does it matter? I mean, you're dead, ok? Who's gonna know? Lord, the things people think of to line their pockets with the cash of the grieving.
Question: what are the numbers of burials vs cremations? I find it horrifying to think of my body slowly rotting away and most likely dug up in the future to make way for housing. Also, is it law that deceased need to be embalmed if they choose cremation?
What a waste of money. It gets thrown in the ground and never seen again. The living family could certainly use the money better than buying an overpriced box to throw into the ground. Who will see that lighthouse? Once closed no one. If you want a lighthouse picture, go buy one. Families need to quit wasting all these money.
I used the term sealer because for a long time, that's what most funeral homes referred to them as and even still to this day despite the funeral service commission making it clear to call them "gasketed" which they are.
