Being a peace with our eventual demise is a miraculous thing.
There was a saying: “The smaller the casket, the heavier it is.”
I would bet that the Abbey caskets are beautifully made. That would be lovely.
I’m not sure how different municipalities treat a burial in just a pine box and whether regs require a cement lining.
I know there's a local jewish cemetery where the bodies are buried in caskets that have an opening on the bottom so the body can touch the bare earth.
And something I did not know until a friend of the family who was Jewish died. Part of the burial is the mourners all throwing some dirty on the casket in the grave. Every other funeral I'd been to, that was done by the cemetery crew after the family and mourners had left.
Either freeze me and shoot me into space or let me grow a tree. I guess I won't care at that point :-)