Why do they place a pillow in your casket and make it all comfy?

Question

and when we are dead we are no longer inside our bodies
and the pillow thing makes no sense to me when your dead
and how could you be all cozy and comfortable when you are
dead?
And I would love some rock music in my casket like Janice
Joplin headphones when they put my body in a casket so I
can listen to rock & roll on my headphones that would be
so cool inside a casket and surround sound Dolby I would
prefer
I could talk with my Priest about doing this?

Answer 1

so you think the pillow is silly but want Janis playing ?

Answer 2

The Pillow tilts your Head forward, so you don't look like you are on a Morgue Table. The Silks and all are to make the Viewers Happy that it looks so Peaceful, rather than Hard and Cold.
We're you Egyptian in your Past Lives? Pillow is Silly, but I want to Take my Headphones? BTW-The Ears, Eardrums, and Nerves die too.
The Funeral Home/Directors would be GLAD to do whatever you Arrange, and PAY for! Your Priest is more likely going to want to follow a more Conservative line.

Answer 3

You could probably talk to your priest about this, but this is clearly a joke question because in the beginnign you say that the pillow is pointless yet you suggest that putting some rock muysic or a dolby sourrround system in which is clearly more pointless then a friggan pillow. Case closed.

Answer 4

Actually, it is more a case of you don't exist as a
conscious entity anymore, period.
With that in mind, your surround Dolby sound sounds
like a waste of a good sound system. Want to make
a real impression? Have yourself stuffed and mounted,
donate your remains to a frat house at then nearest
university, and you can be dragged out of the closet
on Halloween or whatever...
(That being said, you're too young to be thinking about
crap like this.)

Answer 5

Why are you worried about headphones and music when it doesn't matter about a pillow? You are not being consistent in your discussion. To quote the movie Pulp Fiction, "Dead's dead".

Personally, I think burial is a horrific waste of money. (try $15K MINIMUM!) Mom didn't have a funeral. Dad has requested no funeral. Hub and I have requested no funeral.

Even though it is against my religion (Baha'i), I am having the family cremate me and save the money for a nice dinner out in my memory.

Answer 6

The Bible says we will stay in the ground until Jesus returns. So we are down there. I am sure it is to make the dead person look more comfy and charge all the more money.
It use to be that six pieces of wood were nailed together and that was all that was needed. Unless you were on the Wagon Trail, then one was buried right in the dirt.

Answer 7

For the same reason they don't dump a naked corpse into a pit, I suppose.

To make the people who are still alive feel better about things.

In fact I've never understood why people say things like "out of respect for the dead". Why not just be honest and replace the phrase with "in order to make me feel better"?

Answer 8

You could get that done. I have seen caskets with drawers for personal effects. The pillow is decoration. I guess that a pillow and material looks better than a plain pine box.

Answer 9

The pillow is there so your chin doesn't point up at the viewers. Ugh!

But I'm sure you could get a Wakeman stereo player put in with you. Just make sure it has dead batteries, or you won't be hearing ANYTHING out of them for a few years.

Answer 10

I wondered about this myself. It is a marketing strategy in the funeral business. It plays on the emotions of the bereaved, so they will pay more money for all those pretty little extras. For profit.

A pine box works for me.

You are dead. Won't be hearing any music. Remember the guy who was buried in his Cadillac? He wanted to prove, you can take it with you.

Answer 11

For the same reason they line coffins in satin, or make them big, shiny & elaborate....to make the grieving families feel better. It's easier to see someone lying in what appears to be a comfortable sort of bed than in a plain wooden box.