i have always wondered...it doesnt make economic sense to incinerate an expensive coffin...i wondered if they are re-sold back to the undertakers? - what do you think...and will we ever know the truth?
2007-01-23 18:48:36 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
To give you the honest answer.....in some cases maybe the expensive caskets are actually used as the container for cremation. But in actual practice its not always done that way. I have seen MANY MANY purchased caskets NOT used for the cremation ....in fact the body was removed and the casket was resold or reused.
2007-01-25 01:52:36 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
This is an interesting question!
Usually when a person is cremated, there is no reviewal, so no need for a coffin at all. Many times the body is placed in a cardboard container and then cremated. I have no idea if expensive coffins are incinerated, but I have read once they are sold, they aren't to be used again. But who knows? I suppose a dishonest funeral home could reuse them if they chose to. But these days, many people choose to have little plaques on the coffins inside, so if they took those off, the holes would show.
When my mom died, she was cremated, and the funeral director asked me about caskets. They had some fairly inexpensive ones. I told him it was ridiculous to pay for something that was just going to be destroyed anyway. I chose the cardboard container. That was nearly 10 years ago, and it cost about $25.
2007-01-23 19:07:40 · answer #2 · answered by Cat Lover 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No reputable undertaker will sell you an expensive coffin to be cremated in. If the suggestion is ever made that you spend more money to have an expensive coffin for a cremation, get up and run, don't walk. It is someone trying to cheat you. People are always cremated in an inexpensive one, or a shroud.
2007-01-23 18:54:26 · answer #3 · answered by great gig in the sky 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
i think of you are able to choose between the initiating. If the physique is "laid out" for viewing with a coffin the coffin is likewise burned. If the physique would not have a provider of a few variety a pine container will do. I think of that the funeral industry truly enjoys burning them high priced coffins. I additionally think of that frequently human beings think of the coffin grow to be burned, yet some in the back of the curtain hankypanky is going on.
2016-11-26 22:41:57 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Generally people are cremated in an inexpensive fiberboard container that looks very nice if there is to be a viewing. There are also plain cardboard boxes that can be used. The crematory generally requires the use of a cremation container, whether is be cardboard or wood, for sanitation's sake, so their employee isn't directly exposed to all of the dead bodies. No, caskets are not sold back to the funeral directors, that is illegal. Once the casket is sold to someone, it stays with them, burial or cremation. Take care!
2007-01-24 03:23:04 · answer #5 · answered by Reagan 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
They're supposed to. You're not supposed to sell a "used" coffin to someone. The family bought the coffin and it should go with the body without regard of "how" it goes. It's just gonna rot in the ground, so why not burn it too?
2007-01-23 18:53:30 · answer #6 · answered by #1 Buckeye Fan!!!! 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I heard that they burn it all. Call a crematorium. They can tell you for sure. If they don't burn the coffin, then they fraudulently sold a coffin, in my opinion.
2007-01-23 18:54:20 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
They were cases when a woman cremated her husband and then found even cloths (on which there were name's signs) in which he was in a kind of second-hand shop. Not to say about the expensive coffin!
2007-01-23 19:11:42 · answer #8 · answered by Natalya Ch 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
No...just the body...
2007-01-23 18:52:30 · answer #9 · answered by cartramirez@sbcglobal.net 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋