[aberaussie]

When my brother died as a child in the 1950s, the funeral home people told my mother, who was devastated of course, that he would look just the same if they were to open the casket years later and look in on him. She actually had that opportunity when she and my dad decided to move him from one cemetery to another in the town where they decided to be buried. She did not do it - I shudder to think of what she would have found. I am sure the funeral home would not have allowed it anyway.

I really do not understand the whole embalming, putting in a sealed casket, and burying process. Why do we do that? Why not just put the body in a shroud six feet under? The thought of trying to preserve the body chemically in a casket creeps me out.

[Izzy Dunne]

I don’t know why. Perhaps you could ask the folks who see it as a “bizarre cult” or think of it as a hippie greenie thing.