When people die,would'nt it be cheaper to bury them in a carboard coffin?

Question

I mean,i would'nt care,i'll be dead so i wont feel a thing. Coffins are so expensive these days so imagine one made out of cardboard that would be cheap and save people money,what do you think?

Answer 1

you can get enviromentally friendly ones. i know someone who was buried in one and believe it or not they are a lot stronger than you think

Answer 2

You've got to be joking! Didn't you know that most coffins are second hand!

You must have heard that when a body goes into the crematorium and the incineration starts, many of them sit upright! Now, ask yourself - how does a body nailed into a coffin sit upright! They do so because they aren't in the coffin when they get incinerated.

I believe the undertakers do a deal with the crematorium people and coffins are recycled. This may of course not be true and just rumour, but I expect an undertaker will be out there reading this to put the records straight for us all!

I have often wondered what happens to the brass handles and hinges when the heat is switched on - and those urns full of ashes aren't that big or heavy!!

Think about it! Coffins are so expensive - and I don't know any poor undertakers either!

Getting buried seven feet down would need a coffin just to comfort the family - the idea of dropping their loved one in a black bin liner into a hole and shovelling soil on top really isn't nice!

Answer 3

Money is there to be spent in accordance with one's wishes so even if coffins become so expensive, people will try to give their dead a decent burial by sending them off in expensive or affordable coffins and cardboard ones are not the best alternative.

Answer 4

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Answer 5

The ceremony is for the ones left behind. My friend died recently and was cremated. He did have a coffin or (berth) made entirely of bamboo and rush. It was dignified and beautiful and totally sustainable and ethical. A cardboard box is just insulting. When you die, you may not care but spare a thought for your family and friends (assuming you have any that is).

Answer 6

They do use cardboard for incineration. But what about using a cardboard tube and a post hole borer, a 20" diameter hole would be enough for most bodies, and just think how many you could get in the average grave plot.
PS this was written as a morbid joke but thinking about it I found I couldn't face up to the idea of putting them in headfirst, silly isn't it, it would make no difference.

Answer 7

the cardboard would break when the coffin is lifted, and it won,t be a good respect to the person who died. when a person dies, he or she needs to be treated with respect, bathed in nice smelling perfume, buried in a nice coffin, because it will be the last time you will see that body, so you better treat it nice as well. a cheap coffin will depend how much money, the status etc of the decease. we do not expect the queen to be burried in a cardboard coffin like an ordinary army soldier who died while fighting do we?

Answer 8

well the population can always opt for a green buriel which consist of a coffin made of a material just like cardboard but stronger, do you think it will catch on.

Answer 9

yes i so agree. my wife died last year. although we was seperated for 2yrs. To actually see her being buried in a huge heavy box was very weird. I wish it was done like the native americans. Send the body out on a canoe or small boat then shoot a flaming arrow and allow the flames and smoke take that person to heaven. The thought of someone still in a big heavy box. still underground laying there very very slowly decaying due to the size etc of box is so wrong.

Answer 10

Neither would I, but wouldn't it be embarrassing when the body fell out the bottom of the coffin?

Answer 11

my people have the oldest and largest primitive cemetery in the state.of S.C.they settled that area in the early 17 hundreds.My grandfather told me how when his grandfather died they put him in a wheel barrel and hailed him up the hill. wrapped him up and put him in the hole and covered him.in 1894.I plan on being buried the same way. in the family cemetery.. just a hole dug. and me put it in. nothing fancy. they have river and field stones there as grave markers.a person can be buryed still that way if its a family cemetary.my parents spent over 15 thousand dollars to bury each of them. everyone has there on way about things. Peace