[CondorFlight]

Funeral directors have clout (they donate to politicians).

Monks don’t.

[crosshairs]

That’ll be the death of THAT business.

[Theoria]

The Institute for Justice[Great .org] has been helping out the monks in their quest for economic liberty.

[Never on my watch]

Now religious Monks can’t sell wooden boxes without the blessing of the state? Enough already!

[The Great RJ]

When my father-in-law passed away I was asked to help in the selection of a casket. The funeral director was not the most honest and had the first casket you saw being the cheapest most shoddy built wooden box you could imagine and with a price tag of $1200. The next in line was a nearly $10,000 bronze casket. Fortunately the family selected a more reasonably priced item, but the experience left me cold. If you are planning to be buried what better way than in a hand crafted casket made by monks at a price far less than a funeral director's mark up.

However, I have decided to give my body to the local medical school to save the needless expense of a casket and embalming as well as have my old carcase serve a better purpose than to be pickled and potted.

[bgill]

Call it “living merchandise” since it’s the family who feel the need for caskets rather than the deceased.

[Joe 6-pack]

Louisiana heavily regulates the licensing of various professions...you need a florist's license here, for crying out loud...

...but it is all about the revenue. When they instituted the Redflex (an private Arizona company) redlight cameras and "speed vans" here, a lot of private investigators in the sate raised objections because, by the state's own definition, Redflex was engaging in private investigations without a license. IIRC, Redflex received some kind of waiver so they could continue to assess traffic violation fees until they were able to meet the PI licensing requirements.

[Jack Hammer]

Louisiana opens up yet another front on the current War on Religion.