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Positioning of bodies -

Tips to get someone positioned in a #casket just right

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-IKzHdjJHk

VIDEO: #Casket rushes by in raging #Tennessee floodwater caused by #Helene | Fox #Weather

https://www.foxweather.com/extreme-weather/video-casket-rushes-raging-tennessee-floodwater-helene

What came first, the stainless steel #casket or the #cybertruck ?

I may write some occasional #MicroFiction based on #VisualWritingPrompts , but this is not one of those stories.

The manufacturer is now taking pre-orders for a projected availability in Q4 2024. Final cost for the base model? $9,999 USD, w/ free shipping.

Want options? How about a #seatbelt and/or "Full Self-Burying"? [Yep, they really are taking $250 deposits]

https://go.titancasket.com/hypercasket/

The bullet points of selling the new casket listed above an artist rendering of the casket. "Seating capacity: 1 Human, Est. Range: 6 Feet under, 0-60 MPH: Eternity".

Screengrab of the Pre-Order deposit form, part 1, showing the final cost and required deposit amounts.

Screengrab of the Pre-Order deposit form, part 2, showing the 2 available options and costs.... 1 seatbelt is $99, and "Full Self Burying" is listed as 10 million dollars.

Still my fav #MarquesBrownlee #Video

The #casket is the best 🤣
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mv9afG2Dm9I

@georgetakei@universeodon.com A #casket would certainly simplify things... 😉

A recap of most of my published designwork (and one cover art) made in 2022

#art #darkart #logo #logodesign #metal #metallogo #blackmetal #doommetal #rock #bluesrock #AetherVortexDesigns

each column from left to right:
#amūrta
#northeldir
#greave
#barathrum (fanlogo)

#FamulusAbSatanas
#blackmetalpromotion

#Stutyr
#Forgotten
#casket
#fjoergyn (fanlogo)

#bandlogo for #casket from Iowa made by me

#AetherVortexDesigns #blackmetal #art #logo #metallogo

First of all, yes. Second, remember that these are *coffins* not *caskets*. Happy Caturday!

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#HisAndHearsePress #Caturday #CaturdayEveryDay #CatLover #CatsAreGodsAndTheyKnowIt #CatsRule #Coffin #Casket #CoffinNotCasket #Funeral #Burial #Pyramids #Meme

A purple damask frame around a meme. It shows two identical brown coffins, one labeled “successful people” and the other “unsuccessful people.” A third image shows a row of pyramids in Egypt with the label (people who love cats.”

#WordyWednesday: Half Couch vs Full Couch Casket

Most American caskets are half couch. What does that mean?

A half couch casket has a two-piece lid. The top half opens to reveal the deceased’s face and torso while the lower half remains closed to conceal the legs.

These caskets open on the left (it’s just the industry standard, likely because we tend to approach the casket and touch the person with our right hand while turned slightly toward their face; it just works better this way). The inside of the foot end of the casket is often “unfinished,” meaning that it’s spartan rather than upholstered in pleated fabric. We can’t spontaneously decide to reverse a body in a casket, but we can custom order a casket built to open in the opposite direction (like if the right side of a person is too disfigured for viewing).

Note: even though YOU only see the top lid open, rest assured that WE can open both lids to get the body inside. Once the body is nicely tucked in, we close the lower lid.

A full couch casket has a one-piece lid to showcase the entire body, head to toe. They’re uncommon, typically only seen in certain parts of the country. Some include an inner leg covering and/or a foot pillow. Funeral directors must accommodate a few details differently: standard casket flower sprays can only be placed on top when it’s fully closed (or a long simple garland is draped along the hinge panel inside), and similarly, the flag cannot be draped unless the lid is fully closed. Half couch caskets allow flower sprays or a pleated flag to be draped over the closed foot panel during viewing.

Either way, please bring pants for your loved one. Whether we can see their legs or not, they ought to be properly dressed. Full couch caskets expose the feet too, which is rough for us when the feet are swollen. Putting shoes on is really hard! It’s also tricky to keep the feet together rather than splaying out (this is a better reason to tie shoelaces together rather than making the zombie apocalypse funnier).

Which would you prefer? Full or half couch?

#HisAndHearsePress #Casket #Coffin #FullCouch #HalfCouch #Funeral #MortuaryScience #Vocab #Vocabulary #Caskets

A purple damask frame around a black background and two pictures of caskets. Text reads, “Wordy Wednesday: Half Couch vs Full Couch.
A half couch casket has a two-piece lid to reveal the face/torso while concealing the legs.
A full couch casket has a one-piece lid that reveals the entire body.”

#FuneralFactFriday: Full Body Casket Burial at Sea
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Did you know you don’t have to be cremated to get thrown in the ocean???

Full bodies can be buried at sea in caskets! It’s not limited to folks serving in the Navy or other military branches. Anyone can do it (not like Dexter, please hire a legit funeral director who knows how to do it properly).

There are a few requirements. If a casket is used, it needs to be stainless steel and have all the plastic inside removed. Twenty holes (2” diameter) are drilled through the casket to facilitate flooding and air venting. The casket must be secured shut with six durable stainless steel bands, chains, or natural fiber rope. Sand or concrete weights are added (no lead) to help the casket sink and stay put. Ultimately it’ll turn into a reef.

If a casket is not used, the EPA recommends a weighted biodegradable shroud. You may also toss flowers or floral wreaths into the water with the body, as long as all materials are decomposable.

A private boat is hired to take the casket, funeral director, and a few guests out to sea. They must travel at least 3 nautical miles from shore and release the casket into water a minimum of 600’ deep. If the boat regularly performs burials at sea, they might have a platform with rollers to get the casket out into the water with a push and a sploosh. A final yeet into the deep.

No special permission is required, short of filing standard paperwork like a death certificate and disposition permit. The EPA must be notified within 30 days. If it does happen to be performed by the military, there’s no family present to witness. It’s just handled on a regularly scheduled deployment.

Would you be interested in a full body burial at sea???

#HisAndHearsePress #FunFacts #FunFactFriday #Funeral #Burial #BurialAtSea #Ocean #Casket #DidYouKnow #MortuaryScience #FuneralService #FuneralDirector #Yeet

A purple damask frame around a black background. A gray metal casket has a flower spray on top and a series of holes drilled into the sides and lid. Metal straps secure the casket closed. Text reads. “Funeral Fact Friday
Casket Burial at Sea
Anyone can arrange for a full body burial at sea; it's not limited to the Navy or other military branches.
Caskets must adhere to certain standards: stainless steel with all plastic removed, twenty 2" holes drilled (for flooding and air venting), six durable stainless steel bands, chains, or natural fiber rope, and added ballast to help it sink.
A weighted biodegradable shroud may be used instead of a casket. Must be 3 nautical miles from shore and in 600 + feet of water.”

Yes. Yes, you should bring pants.

Just because a casket lid is usually closed on the foot end doesn’t mean you can’t see or that nosy people won’t poke around and look. Also, think about how embarrassing it’ll be for your loved one as they attend ghost parties with no bottoms. Shameful.

On that note, there are no requirement about what dead people have to wear in their caskets. You want to be dressed in a suit? Fine. Pajamas? That’s okay too. Superhero costume? You do you! All we ask is that it fits reasonably well (though we can improvise with a few alterations) and that it covers anything that needs covering (autopsy incision, trauma etc). When in doubt, go for something long sleeved and high necked. Make your wishes known to your family!

#HisAndHearsePress #Funeral #Mortuary #Casket #Coffin #PatrickStewart #Meme #GhostOutfit #MortuaryScience #DeathPositive #YouDoYou

A meme of Patrick Stewart as Picard doing a facepalm. Text reads “my reaction when a family asks if they should bring in pants for the deceased.”

Anybody else remember this? About 10 years ago, J&D Foods offered this magnificent tribute to bacon lovers.

Known for their bacon flavored salt, soda, mayonnaise, lip balm, and lube (yes, lube), J&D commissioned an 18 gauge steel casket with a bacon themed design.

For the low, low price of $3000, you can get your own pork-wrapped forever box, AND they’ll even throw in a bacon scented air freshener! Yum 🥓

#HisAndHearsePress #Casket #Coffin #Funeral #Mortuary #Bacon #BaconLovers #BaconForever #JAndDFoods #JDFoods #BaconSalt #DeathPositive

#FuneralFactFriday: Fantasy Coffins of Ghana

Hey new friends! Here’s what happens: I post fun facts about death and funeral related topics, especially on certain themed days. For the past couple weeks, I’ve accidentally on purpose tied all of my posts to cats (Not literally, don’t ever tie anything to a cat). Sooo, here’s a cat-shaped coffin!

For the past 70 years, master carpenters in Ghana have custom built “figurative” coffins. Families choose a theme based on their loved one's occupation, hobbies, personality, or symbolism from proverbs. You want to be buried in a lobster? They can do that!

The tradition began in the 1950s when the village chief commissioned a palanquin shaped like a cacao pod (it’s a fancy enclosed platform with handles so people can carry you — very fancy). Unfortunately, the chief died before it was finished. The villagers opted to use it as a coffin after parading his body around town in a procession.

The idea caught on. Other chiefs and priests were similarly honored, then regular folks began to request specially made coffins. The idea is for dead people to remember something of themselves in the afterlife and to highlight their social status.

Carpenters and their apprentices hand carve the special shapes from local wawa trees, usually taking about 2-6 weeks to complete. Urgent orders can be completely faster if several carpenters work together. A fantasy coffin usually sells for about $1000, but for perspective, the people buying them are typically earning about $3 a day!

Popular designs include airplanes, animals (family totems), Coca Cola bottles, shoes, cellphones, luxury cars, fish, and Bibles. If you do a Google image search, they’re fascinating to see! Which one would YOU choose???

#HisAndHearsePress #Coffin #Ghana #FantasyCoffin #CoffinDance #Woodworking #CustomBuilt #Funeral #Casket #DeathPositive #FBF #FollowFriday #FollowBackFriday

A black background with a purple damask frame and a wooden coffin carved and painted like a cheetah. Text reads, “funeral fact Friday: fantasy coffins of Ghana. For the past 70 years, master carpenters in Ghana have custom built figurative coffins. Families choose a theme based on their loved one's occupation, hobbies, personality, or symbolism from proverbs. Popular designs include airplanes, animals (family totems), Coca Cola bottles, shoes, cellphones, luxury cars, fish, and Bibles.”

It’s #Caturday!

Todays cat + funeral mashup is this adorable set of figures representing the real-life Dancing Pallbearers. They’re a group of professional pallbearers in Ghana who rose to viral Tiktok fame for their choreographed dancing while carrying caskets on their shoulders yes, they dropped one once).

Their leader, Benjamin Aidoo, has transformed the original group into a business that supports one hundred employees in an area beset by high unemployment rates.

Also know as the Coffin Dancers ⚰️

#HisAndHearsePress #DancingPallbearers #CoffinDancers #Ghana #GhanaFuneral #Funeral #Pallbearers #Casket #Coffin #Cat #Catstodon #CatsOfMastodon

A set of small plastic cat figures in varying colors, standing on their hind legs with their arms raised. A black coffin with a cross shape on it is balanced between them. They’re a cat version of the famous Dancing Pallbearers of Ghana.

#WordyWednesday: Catafalque (yeah, I know I’m posting this a day late, but it was the cat-a-fault 👀 see what I did there? Anyways, kittens!)

A catafalque (pronounced CATTA-falk) is the fancy stand a casket rest on during a viewing or funeral. They’re usually constructed from wood and have wheels concealed beneath them so we can push caskets to different areas of the mortuary.

Catafalques can be simple or ornate, and are sometimes concealed behind a fabric drape. They’re also known as biers (pronounced beers), and are not to be confused with church trucks (those are the wheeled metal stands that fold up like an accordion).

#HisAndHearsePress #Catafalque #Bier #ChurchTruck #Funeral #Casket #Mortuary #MortuaryScience #CatJokes

A black background with a purple damask frame and a wooden piece of furniture that looks like a short platform. Text reads, “Wordy Wednesday: Catafalque. The fancy stand a casket rests on during a viewing or funeral. Usually constructed from wood and has wheels hidden underneath. Can be ornate, simple, or concealed by a fabric drape. Also known as a bier. Pronounced “CATTA-falk.””

I found some cool funeral trinkets! Check out these enamel pins from Demonic Pinfestation. I’ve never seen an embalming machine pin, and look! The little casket opens! I love them ☠️🖤⚰️

See more at www.DemonicPinfestation.com

(No, I’m not getting anything out of this. Just sharing cool treasures!)

#HisAndHearsePress #EnamelPins #DemonicPinfestation #Funeral #Embalmer #Mortician #MortuarySchool #MortuaryScience #Casket #EmbalmingMachine #Goth

A purple damask background featuring two enamel pins on card stock backings. A business card reads “Demonic Pinfestation.” The pins are shaped as an embalming machine and a casket.

A purple damask background with a Caucasian hand holding a small enamel pin. It’s in the shape of an embalming machine with pink fluid in the tank and a pink hose shaped into the word “death.”

A purple damask background with a Caucasian hand holding an enamel pin shaped like a black casket. Half of the lid is open to display a red interior and a white skeleton.

#Life is like a giant #casket that keeps getting smaller.

#FuneralFactFriday: Some caskets have holes drilled into them

Orthodox Jewish caskets have pre-drilled holes in the bottom panel to facilitate the body's rapid return to the earth. Contact with the earth and quick decomposition fulfill the Bible's requirement, "For dust thou are and unto dust shalt thou return."

Metal caskets must have a series of holes drilled into them to be buried at sea. There are requirements about strapping the casket closed, weighting it down, and creating holes for water to enter and air to escape. Otherwise they won't sink!

#HisAndHearsePress #FunFact #FunFacts #Funeral #Casket #JewishBurial #BurialAtSea #Holes