I still remember what my pop said to my mum while organising his funeral. Just chuck me in the back of the ute and put me in the hole, ill be dead, keep the money i saved. He had a good point. My mum did end up choosing a nice coffin and funeral for him. One thing he did want though which what happened was after the church service no one went to the burial, we all went to the pub and he put a few grand on the bar. A great man, i miss him so much. Love u pop
The "key" turns a threaded rod on which latches are mounted. The latches engage in slots in the lid of the casket. Technically the key belongs to the person who buys the casket. The key isn't magic. It can be substituted with a 3/8 inch hex key. The indent into which the key fits is protected by a brass cover. There's another brass cover on the opposite side of the casket which contains information about the deceased.
Just put me in a pine box please...you're supposed to return to dust instead being preserved forever for scientists to disturb in 1,000 years or a flood to wash away.
My husband is getting a wooden casket from the Trappist monks. Very simple. I’m going to be cremated and will be buried or in turd with him when the time comes.
Since 1971 I have closed the casket and been a pall bearer for every family member. Different family members had various funeral homes. Almost all were buried except 2 that were cremated. At no time was the casket locked or a key used. For those that do have a lock is the key a universal key in case the key was lost ?
That allen wrench there lifts the body upward for viewing. When it's time to close the casket for good, the wrench is used to then lower the body into the casket, shut the lid, which, I'm more familiar with casket lids being one piece, not two lids, or two pieces, then once the lid is lowered, it locks, and they allen wrench it even further locked/shut so you can't get into it without the proper tools to get into it, if it's court ordered exhumed. At any rate, discusting job to have to open a casket back up once it's been in the ground. Wouldn't want that job, that's for sure.
In my hometown there are two malls… A really big busy one on the east side of town and eight… Less active one on the west… About 10 years ago (2010) when the mall is not quite as dead… One of the entrances you could choose to go into the mall by way of how do you walking right past the store where they sold coffins Because when I think shopping mall I automatically think coffins… Sort of ironic because now that mall is mostly dead and circling the drain… I don’t know if the coffin store is still there or not…
Those "refrigerator gasket" type sealing coffins should be illegal. When the body starts to rot so much decomposition gas can build up that it literally explodes, tossing putrefied chunks of meat all over, (if its in a mausoleum). The body should be allowed to dry out naturally in a casket with no seal.
In many mausoleums, the casket is kept slightly open with a wedge, to let the body dry out, although some rely on a vent on the casket to release pressure. The crypts are vented and drained from the back though small holes, and are sloped slightly toward the back. Fresh air, or sometimes air including a pesticide is usually slowly pumped through the crypts to promote drying. So a mausoleum crypt is far more than just a concrete box.
I want a pressure relief valve like on air compressors installed on my casket if I go that route then place it in a glass cabinet or something like that in a mausoleum. Secure the stem of a balloon or something to it so that when the pressure vents off it sounds like a big fart and scares the crap out of people. Put a little sign on it that says "Even in death, he was STILL an asshole". LOL
Every human being should not have to worry about funeral costs themselves or for their family. The state should pay it as the golden handshake for giving them their honoured lives as polititans
I've shipped decedents to India. Locked metal caskets are totally foreign to them. We had to attach the casket key on top of the lid, along with written instructions (in English and Punjabi). Also, the lid IS locked for the flight. If you look at the other corner at the foot end, there is another cap. Open this before the casket goes to the airport and the pressure can be regulated during the flight.
Alright, a down home Southern gal as the funeral director! Now, this is an example of a lower line sealer half couch style of metal casket, but you forgot one thing: the raise and lower bed that uses this same hex wrench type of key! Above the head of the deceased (to the viewer's left) is another vise type mechanism that is used the same way to raise the bed so that the deceased doesn't look like they are in a box, but to close the lid, you have to lower this bed so that the lid doesn't smash against the deceased's face and make a mess out of a good makeup job! Quite possibly, this model doesn't have this feature, because usually only the more up line models do (based on the paint job, hardware, and interior), but at least it has that blanket overlay for the foot lid so that the deceased's legs and feet aren't showing during the viewing! An important thing, why it is not sealed on an airplane, is because it could explode when descending back to sea level pressure, after being under much lighter pressure going up into the sky! (If the body wasn't buried in the ground, such as in an above ground mausoleum crypt, you wouldn't want to crank the lid down either, because of the same reason), or they could have purchased a non sealer couch model, instead!
not muslims. we get placed directly in the ground in a nitch. Basically a hole on the side of the big hole that non Muslims get buried in. then the dirt gets thrown on the side of us.
Me: Oh… Well, here is a video explaining how to open a casket… Voice in my head: do you really need to know this information? Me: probably not but who knows it might come in handy someday…. Taps video…. Me: well… It looks like that thing that holds the lid up is similar to those latches the kids had on their pack and play or their playpen when they were little…. Man oh man sometimes those buggers could be really hard to operate Also me: why would you want to lock a casket? Opening kind of seems important at least to a point but locking? From who? Grave robbers? Voice in my head: girl, you are seriously weird… Watching all these videos about funerals and caskets and things… Me: COVID-19 has really highlighted some of my bazaar viewing habits… I watch people clean up crime scenes or clean up the aftermath of the suicide… I watch a man gleefully testing out various mouse traps, the most amusing ones involved the man testing mouse traps that ended up swinging mice into a big bucket of water. I watched a man microwave dog poop just to see what would happen…. I was a little curious for some reason but didn’t want to sacrifice my microwave that I actually cook food and sometimes… I watch a man take 60 or 70 or 80 or more years expired food in a can, open the can, dump the contents into a tree and then I watch as he proceeded to poke at the mess in the tray and describe its texture what it looks like and what it smells like And the abandoned buildings and houses oh all the abandoned Urbach’s things… Including weird abandon mortuaries… Which I guess might be one of the reasons this showed up here…
why is the foot of casket on the right hand side of the casket? to embalm, the left side of the neck is used, its away from the viewers. there is a name for a half casket and a name for a full open casket, I just can't remember what it is??the lights along the side of the casket have to do with the appearance of the person too! tell us about that? once embalmed, does the body have to cure so long, or can it be viewed right away?? I know it takes about 3 hours to embalm a body, can u view it after that or do u have to wait so many hours??
Yes, every casket comes with a key because every casket has to be locked before they put it in the ground. They lock it not only to keep the bugs out, but also in case someone (a grave digger), tried to open the casket. They may try to do this for jewelry, etc. anything expensive that the family may have placed in the casket with their loved one. Now the funeral home/cemetery may not offer you the key, but if you ask I'm sure they'll give it to you. Hope this helped answer your questions :)
One more thing. Also, in almost every case I've seen, the key has been universal. Meaning the same key works for many caskets. So yes they will most likely give you the key if you ask for it :)
+Dennis Clark Every casket has its own key. They are all the same size (3/8 inch hex). Typically, the funeral keeps the key because who wants or needs it? I have seen casket keys for sale on the Internet. Maybe a funeral home will give you one if you ask. They each must have an assload of them.
I worked in a funeral home as an embalmed. I know that caskets generally do not lock. But, no one cares. The casket may be placed inside a vault, if the cemetery requires it according to state laws.
Well... This is something new to me. I never knew of this! Never knew of lockable caskets. I always thought that when they closed the casket, That was it, that it was freestyle open/close. So this is protection from grave robbers? Because I know the deceased will not try to escape their caskets. Seriously!
I saw a video where the cemetery workers lost their grip on the coffin as they were trying to get it on the thing that lowers the casket into the grave. TThey damaged the casket but no one tumbled out.Kevin thanks for the comment.
By locking the casket it creates the "airtight" seal - only sealer caskets have this mechanism. The idea of your loved one being sealed in an airtight, watertight casket appeals to many people. However, without air movement the natural decomposition process cannot occur as it is meant to. What often times ends up happening is over time the gasses given off by the body build up inside the casket, as they cannot escape, and as a result the casket can actually explode.
Maybe his first language is not English. And he may have been overwhelmed by his father's death even though he was calm here. How many languages do you speak?
I even understood this Lady & I have a Learning Disability. You can show something to me just once & I will get it. I can understand that he is in Shock & all but listen to all of this Woman's Words 😐That Are Coming Out Of Her Mouth😯 Gee where's Chris Tucker when you need him?
So they don't come open years after burial if a flood surfaces it.Also to keep belongings placed with loved ones safe and away from grave robbers.It also seals it tight so dirt debris and water stays out.Which water nowadays and dirt are not concerns in USA states where vaults must be used
A horrible thing happened in Dallas in the 90's. A young gay man who worked in a small funeral home that catered only to gay people and liked to pick up rough trade, took one of them back to the home where he would sleep when he was on call. The rough trade did his stuff with the gay man, then over-powered him and forced him into one of the display caskets and locked him into it. The home was only used during a funeral and it was a week before he was found dead in the coffin.
Sealing a casket is stupid, instead of the body putrefying and then decaying to dust the body will literally explode and turn your loved one into mush.
HOW COME YOU ARE NOT ALLOW TO SEE YOUR LOVE ONE FOR THE LAST JUST BEFORE BURIAL ????HOW DO YOU KNOW IF YOUR LOVE ONE IS STILL IN THE CASKET ????? YOU SHOULD BE ALLOW TO SEE YOUR LOVE ONE JUST BEFORE BURIAL...ALSO IN MILITARY NATIONAL CEMETERIES DO THEY PUT 2 SOLDIERS IN THE SAME HOLE ???
+Busty_ Sal why the need for an oversized tin box that is hermetically sealed? is it to keep you fresher for longer? I cant think of a better way to be buried than the comfort of an English oak coffin.
+twamley yeah I guess you're right. I guess it's all what someone is used to. I certainly didn't mean to come off harsh or disrespectful. These types of caskets are the norm here in North America so I guess anything different seems odd to me.
+Joseph Hill No, the body will decompose and form maggots either way. The reason they lock the casket is so that people don't steal what's left in the casket given from the families of the loved ones.
What does locking the casket have to do with preventing bugs? There are creases in between the lid and the base of the casket, for air circulation. Otherwise the body would decompose faster even before the funeral service as embalming is done in a few days if not a week in advance.
I'm a chippy and love playing with wood even mine. So I will be making my own with a built in CD player and a USB drive with slayers every song/album my last request is to have slayer:god hates us all followed by south of heaven in the service My family have promised this. God bless all you fools who are tricked and lucifer have your hottest chillies and a scotch waiting for me brother. 🌶🌶🌶🌶🌶🌶👹👹👺🥃🥃🥃
They don't put you in one of these in Ireland my wife was in one something like this but wood,my daughter died when I was 19 her coffin was so small but caskets are the Ford mustang of coffins the Irish idea of death is getting really drunk and beating the shit out of every male there!I buried my father in a mahogany coffin he looked asleep.i knew he was definitely dead because he was of hiş rocker and loved stealing things that could not be reported to the Garda. I met a woman after about yr after my wife's suicide a couple of yrs into the relationship she got pregnant at the six mths scan they said it was wrong,our son if he lived at all would be born in to palliative care,after my daughter dying yrs b4 I hoped I never seen a baby's coffin again my so Liam Michael Myler was born on the 5th of March 2010 and died on the 2nd of August 2010, I left the house that day or the next and went to town to get a couple of marvel legends action figures only to come home to find my sons 4ft coffin a foot for every mths,I have buried my two babies my wife and father all b4 37 that's life I get by on sleeping pills valium 💊 pills anti depression pills anti phizcotic pills in ways I've died my name is Paul today I'm sad 😔 😔😔😔😔😔😔😔
All men are born in the flesh spiritually dead and as Jesus said you can not see the Kingdom of God unless you are "born again." This spiritual birth (2nd. birth) means you already have eternal life and though you die once in the flesh but are eternally alive spiritually. If one has not been born spiritually (second birth) he will die twice. The bible calls it the second death. Revelation 20:6
+wongfeihung1847 Locking a casket is for the purpose of protecting the body and what maybe buried with them (jewelry for example) from potential tampering with the grave and remains. The locking system is also a protection mechanism should something happen to the grave and the casket is exposed near or at the surface. If you have ever seen cemeteries in the deep South (USA) after a hurricane or severe heavy rains, there is the chance that the graves will wash away and up comes grandpa and his vault the casket was placed in. New Orleans is a good example of an area being so low below sea level that you will see such events occur after serious and severe storms. Well built burial vaults and good-high quality caskets with locking mechanisms preserve the grave's contents. And for health reasons, the locking and sealing prevents the spread of disease from a decomposing corpse. One other point, embalming of a body does NOT preserve it forever. IT will decompose and so it's a good idea to keep things "under raps" so to speak. Also, in some cases, bodies kept in well sealed caskets/vaults will eventually explode. Despite all that is done prior to burial, decomposition gases can cause problem. Which is why you want a good box to hold grandpa in. This does not always happen, BUT if you are in an area in the deep South where storms and hurricanes cause intense and widespread flooding keeping people in their "box" also helps identify the remains in case Grandpa ends up in Baton Rouge or something like that. :-)
Protects the integrity of the casket. Mowers, setting markers on or nearby, closing the grave, opening and closing nearby graves are all stresses. To a smaller degree it protects the body from voyeurs and thieves in the funeral home. Funeral homes from first cal to burial see more thefts than grave robbing in modern days. I have known more embalmers to carry a gun than store clerks.
I still remember what my pop said to my mum while organising his funeral. Just chuck me in the back of the ute and put me in the hole, ill be dead, keep the money i saved. He had a good point.
My mum did end up choosing a nice coffin and funeral for him. One thing he did want though which what happened was after the church service no one went to the burial, we all went to the pub and he put a few grand on the bar.
A great man, i miss him so much. Love u pop
Markups in Caskets are unprecedented. The average casket actual cost is $1,200. A Funeral home will sell it retail for approx $8,000
CZcams: hey you want to see how to open and lock casket
Me: of course let’s gooooo
Why the hell am I watching this???
princetachalla I agree I’ve been watching a couple days now . It helped me become comfortable
No Kidding
Lmao I was thinking the same damn thing🤣🤣
I was just wondering how you could open it from the inside if you were buried alive
I want a phonograph cylinder connected to the key mechanism in my casket, so if someone tries to crank it open, they'll hear "IT'S ALIIIIVE!"
The "key" turns a threaded rod on which latches are mounted. The latches engage in slots in the lid of the casket. Technically the key belongs to the person who buys the casket. The key isn't magic. It can be substituted with a 3/8 inch hex key. The indent into which the key fits is protected by a brass cover. There's another brass cover on the opposite side of the casket which contains information about the deceased.
Locked casket inside a concrete vault underground. Making sure no one escapes.
Those casket keys are generally universal
Just put me in a pine box please...you're supposed to return to dust instead being preserved forever for scientists to disturb in 1,000 years or a flood to wash away.
Done. A dozen night crawlers will be thrown in for free
W Morris Worm farm! Awesome! More fertilizer to push up the daisies!
My husband is getting a wooden casket from the Trappist monks. Very simple. I’m going to be cremated and will be buried or in turd with him when the time comes.
Since 1971 I have closed the casket and been a pall bearer for every family member. Different family members had various funeral homes. Almost all were buried except 2 that were cremated.
At no time was the casket locked or a key used.
For those that do have a lock is the key a universal key in case the key was lost ?
That allen wrench there lifts the body upward for viewing. When it's time to close the casket for good, the wrench is used to then lower the body into the casket, shut the lid, which, I'm more familiar with casket lids being one piece, not two lids, or two pieces, then once the lid is lowered, it locks, and they allen wrench it even further locked/shut so you can't get into it without the proper tools to get into it, if it's court ordered exhumed. At any rate, discusting job to have to open a casket back up once it's been in the ground. Wouldn't want that job, that's for sure.
Give me the flames and save my family the expense
Exactly. Cremate me, and just throw my ashes away. I'll be done. Don't want to burden anyone.
Why the fck am i watching these
Your. Extremely. Normal. Your. Only. Wanting. Facts. About. It.
It fasinates. Your. Intellect.
In my hometown there are two malls… A really big busy one on the east side of town and eight… Less active one on the west… About 10 years ago (2010) when the mall is not quite as dead… One of the entrances you could choose to go into the mall by way of how do you walking right past the store where they sold coffins
Because when I think shopping mall I automatically think coffins… Sort of ironic because now that mall is mostly dead and circling the drain… I don’t know if the coffin store is still there or not…
walmart has them for sale you can buy one and have it shipped to the store and lay
for layway no really they do that
I know! True.
Those "refrigerator gasket" type sealing coffins should be illegal. When the body
starts to rot so much decomposition gas can build up that it literally explodes,
tossing putrefied chunks of meat all over, (if its in a mausoleum). The body should
be allowed to dry out naturally in a casket with no seal.
pretty sure that there will be a vent somewhere on this casket to prevent gas build up.
In many mausoleums, the casket is kept slightly open with a wedge, to let the body dry out, although some rely on a vent on the casket to release pressure. The crypts are vented and drained from the back though small holes, and are sloped slightly toward the back. Fresh air, or sometimes air including a pesticide is usually slowly pumped through the crypts to promote drying. So a mausoleum crypt is far more than just a concrete box.
I want a pressure relief valve like on air compressors installed on my casket if I go that route then place it in a glass cabinet or something like that in a mausoleum. Secure the stem of a balloon or something to it so that when the pressure vents off it sounds like a big fart and scares the crap out of people. Put a little sign on it that says "Even in death, he was STILL an asshole". LOL
they have burping valves in them.
So that's why they cost so much. Why not use a latch like the hood on a 69 c10?
muita luxuria para a morada do pé junto o brejo do cruz.
is it better and cheaper if human body is used as compost?
Every human being should not have to worry about funeral costs themselves or for their family. The state should pay it as the golden handshake for giving them their honoured lives as polititans
I've shipped decedents to India. Locked metal caskets are totally foreign to them. We had to attach the casket key on top of the lid, along with written instructions (in English and Punjabi). Also, the lid IS locked for the flight. If you look at the other corner at the foot end, there is another cap. Open this before the casket goes to the airport and the pressure can be regulated during the flight.
BulletNoseBetty l
Alright, a down home Southern gal as the funeral director! Now, this is an example of a lower line sealer half couch style of metal casket, but you forgot one thing: the raise and lower bed that uses this same hex wrench type of key! Above the head of the deceased (to the viewer's left) is another vise type mechanism that is used the same way to raise the bed so that the deceased doesn't look like they are in a box, but to close the lid, you have to lower this bed so that the lid doesn't smash against the deceased's face and make a mess out of a good makeup job! Quite possibly, this model doesn't have this feature, because usually only the more up line models do (based on the paint job, hardware, and interior), but at least it has that blanket overlay for the foot lid so that the deceased's legs and feet aren't showing during the viewing! An important thing, why it is not sealed on an airplane, is because it could explode when descending back to sea level pressure, after being under much lighter pressure going up into the sky! (If the body wasn't buried in the ground, such as in an above ground mausoleum crypt, you wouldn't want to crank the lid down either, because of the same reason), or they could have purchased a non sealer couch model, instead!
I LIKE THAT CONFEDERATE TALKING. NOT LIKE THE UNION CHICKS WHO SPEAK GHETTO/
Why on earth would I want to learn how to open a coffin or casket, unless I am a Vampire?😀 😃 😄 😁 This is just morbid.......
I worked at a cemetery and was left alone at the grave. That when I found out you needed a key..
Great now a zombie apocalypse is coming thanks to YOU and YOUR video!
But one does not simply have a key, right? Or worse, one key is actually a master key for all.
To open. A. Casecket. Do. U. Spin. The. Key. Do. U. Turn. Clock. Wise. Or. Anti. Clockwise
Actually thats a great way to get a free flight for someone. Why is this soo difficult for this guy to comprehend?
Looks like a Batseville casket
i think if u ever have to open a casket, call sam and dean, theyll even salt and burn the corps for u
I hope the casket material are not toxic!
Brand new caskets they do it at the head of the casket brand new ones Valuable information 2021?🙏🏾🕊🕊🕊
It's crazy to think that we all will end up in one eventually.
Or some Kroger bags for the trolls!
not muslims. we get placed directly in the ground in a nitch. Basically a hole on the side of the big hole that non Muslims get buried in. then the dirt gets thrown on the side of us.
Eazy Hunter not all some will be ashes
Me: Oh… Well, here is a video explaining how to open a casket…
Voice in my head: do you really need to know this information?
Me: probably not but who knows it might come in handy someday….
Taps video….
Me: well… It looks like that thing that holds the lid up is similar to those latches the kids had on their pack and play or their playpen when they were little…. Man oh man sometimes those buggers could be really hard to operate
Also me: why would you want to lock a casket? Opening kind of seems important at least to a point but locking? From who? Grave robbers?
Voice in my head: girl, you are seriously weird… Watching all these videos about funerals and caskets and things…
Me: COVID-19 has really highlighted some of my bazaar viewing habits… I watch people clean up crime scenes or clean up the aftermath of the suicide… I watch a man gleefully testing out various mouse traps, the most amusing ones involved the man testing mouse traps that ended up swinging mice into a big bucket of water. I watched a man microwave dog poop just to see what would happen…. I was a little curious for some reason but didn’t want to sacrifice my microwave that I actually cook food and sometimes…
I watch a man take 60 or 70 or 80 or more years expired food in a can, open the can, dump the contents into a tree and then I watch as he proceeded to poke at the mess in the tray and describe its texture what it looks like and what it smells like
And the abandoned buildings and houses oh all the abandoned Urbach’s things… Including weird abandon mortuaries… Which I guess might be one of the reasons this showed up here…
Are casket keys all the same
FREAKY!
When you buy a casket. All you're buying is piece of mind.
Good to know, that will come in Hindi when im in my casket...when I'm dead...waitttt a minute
anyone else feel like they watched this inside a 7/11?
caskets are scary
why is the foot of casket on the right hand side of the casket? to embalm, the left side of the neck is used, its away from the viewers. there is a name for a half casket and a name for a full open casket, I just can't remember what it is??the lights along the side of the casket have to do with the appearance of the person too! tell us about that? once embalmed, does the body have to cure so long, or can it be viewed right away?? I know it takes about 3 hours to embalm a body, can u view it after that or do u have to wait so many hours??
Its half couch and full couch
freeze dry...that is the way to go...
does every casket come with a key. is it offered to the family ?
Yes, every casket comes with a key because every casket has to be locked before they put it in the ground. They lock it not only to keep the bugs out, but also in case someone (a grave digger), tried to open the casket. They may try to do this for jewelry, etc. anything expensive that the family may have placed in the casket with their loved one.
Now the funeral home/cemetery may not offer you the key, but if you ask I'm sure they'll give it to you. Hope this helped answer your questions :)
One more thing. Also, in almost every case I've seen, the key has been universal. Meaning the same key works for many caskets. So yes they will most likely give you the key if you ask for it :)
+Dennis Clark Every casket has its own key. They are all the same size (3/8 inch hex). Typically, the funeral keeps the key because who wants or needs it? I have seen casket keys for sale on the Internet. Maybe a funeral home will give you one if you ask. They each must have an assload of them.
The casket keys are universal.
Can only imagine how many casket's are in the ground that aren't locked cause someone skipped a step and forgot to lock it.
tempo1889 Don't think about casket locking. The majority of
caskets do not lock.
I worked in a funeral home as an embalmed. I know that caskets generally do not lock. But, no one
cares. The casket may be placed inside a vault, if the cemetery requires it according to state laws.
Well... This is something new to me. I never knew of this! Never knew of lockable caskets. I always thought that when they closed the casket, That was it, that it was freestyle open/close. So this is protection from grave robbers? Because I know the deceased will not try to escape their caskets. Seriously!
I think it's so the body will not fall out if the coffin is dropped? Maybe just so it stays shut in transit?
kate weiss Did not know this. SORRY!
noneed to be sorry!
+kate weiss how would the body fall out it would have to be flipped or turned in a cirel
I saw a video where the cemetery workers lost their grip on the coffin as they were trying to get it on the thing that lowers the casket into the grave. TThey damaged the casket but no one tumbled out.Kevin thanks for the comment.
mam i wish for you soon you be in
thank you for information
I would love to be buried in a solid gold casket,but I'm sure someone would dig my dead ass up.You know the rest of the story..
She is good looking 🙂
a tuna fish can is stronger than this
Hi elwood p jack
I also had that imression
How did i crawl down this rabbit hole?
These unboxing videos are getting out of hand.
Who keeps the locking key when it's time for internment?
How about you locking the casket and the person wants to get out later
oh this is so morbid thinking we all will be thr one day now I'm having an anxiety attack.I really like the young lady though .
Why casket need locks ? seriously, dead people won't wake up and escape !
theft prevention of the body, and or valuables that are interred with the deceased
By locking the casket it creates the "airtight" seal - only sealer caskets have this mechanism. The idea of your loved one being sealed in an airtight, watertight casket appeals to many people. However, without air movement the natural decomposition process cannot occur as it is meant to. What often times ends up happening is over time the gasses given off by the body build up inside the casket, as they cannot escape, and as a result the casket can actually explode.
It seals the body. My partner was exhumed after two years in perfect condition. Two years on the crazy police exhumed.
Just in case the dead person is morbidly obese and the pallbearers drop the butterball on the ground. Or one of them could be a clumsy idiot.😂🤣⚰
Ken Wilson LOL.
to answer the person below, when you are paying top dollar for a casket , you are gonna want to know the details.
Maybe his first language is not English. And he may have been overwhelmed by his father's death even though he was calm here. How many languages do you speak?
I even understood this Lady & I have a Learning Disability. You can show something to me just once & I will get it. I can understand that he is in Shock & all but listen to all of this Woman's Words 😐That Are Coming Out Of Her Mouth😯 Gee where's Chris Tucker when you need him?
no person can open that casket. when is locked is locked right
Stellt euch vor ihr liegt da drin findet auch den Schlüssel. ..Aber ihr kommt ja nicht ans schloss..
I wonder if she knew that she would ended up on you tube .
Nope I sure didn’t
"They can throw it [the key] away" ??....what if an exhumation if required??
I would think the key is universal. HOW COME THEY CANT USE
KEY FOB LIKE A CAR INSTEAD. U COULD HAVE THE LITTLE FOB ON YOUR CAR KEY RING.
it's just a hex key (allen wrench).
Locksmith 🤔
WHY LOCK IT? They afraid they are coming out to get them?
So they don't come open years after burial if a flood surfaces it.Also to keep belongings placed with loved ones safe and away from grave robbers.It also seals it tight so dirt debris and water stays out.Which water nowadays and dirt are not concerns in USA states where vaults must be used
Nothing "stays out" of a locked or sealed casket. Water, bugs, worms... they all get inside.
it to stop grave robbers
To preserve the body to prevent composition
I've seen "Night Of The Living Dead"..... they need some better locks on those things.
A horrible thing happened in Dallas in the 90's. A young gay man who worked in a small funeral home that catered only to gay people and liked to pick up rough trade, took one of them back to the home where he would sleep when he was on call. The rough trade did his stuff with the gay man, then over-powered him and forced him into one of the display caskets and locked him into it. The home was only used during a funeral and it was a week before he was found dead in the coffin.
can't be true!
Source?
Why have a lock on casket if the casket goes in a vault in ground. you realy making sure they dont come out.
I was thinking the same thing🤔
To prevent theft of valuables buried with the deceased.
Sealing a casket is stupid, instead of the body putrefying and then decaying to dust the body will literally explode and turn your loved one into mush.
1 day before sandy hook
piece of cake......right?
I would not like to die on this age
well imma keep the key ...sorry the people can't have it
Do not leave jewelry or gold teeth with the deceased! You would be shocked!!!
its hard to close a casket you need to do 5 math tests and get the all 100percent right
Creepy
HOW COME YOU ARE NOT ALLOW TO SEE YOUR LOVE ONE FOR THE LAST JUST BEFORE BURIAL ????HOW DO YOU KNOW IF YOUR LOVE ONE IS STILL IN THE CASKET ????? YOU SHOULD BE ALLOW TO SEE YOUR LOVE ONE JUST BEFORE BURIAL...ALSO IN MILITARY NATIONAL CEMETERIES DO THEY PUT 2 SOLDIERS IN THE SAME HOLE ???
I thought that they floated their dead down the Ganges river in India? Only the wealthy actually get buried.
The English coffin is much neater and greener.
+Busty_ Sal why the need for an oversized tin box that is hermetically sealed? is it to keep you fresher for longer?
I cant think of a better way to be buried than the comfort of an English oak coffin.
+twamley yeah I guess you're right. I guess it's all what someone is used to. I certainly didn't mean to come off harsh or disrespectful. These types of caskets are the norm here in North America so I guess anything different seems odd to me.
Busty_ Sal
davidfahey
No thanks not going in one of those. There are other options.
I’m watching this so if my death is faked I know how to get TF OUT
Why would you lock a casket? The person is dead.
Sophia Chain grave robbers ????
Interesting info, but really useless.
I don't think I will ever have the need to open a casket.
I wonder will the Government make them put a glowing release latch inside?
OMG!!! This isn't brain surgery dude.
The sooner I die the better off the world will be .
Cmon don't say that..
Thay lock the thing so bugs don't get in
+Joseph Hill No, the body will decompose and form maggots either way. The reason they lock the casket is so that people don't steal what's left in the casket given from the families of the loved ones.
Ok do u work in a funeral home??? I do so you are wrong.
What does locking the casket have to do with preventing bugs? There are creases in between the lid and the base of the casket, for air circulation. Otherwise the body would decompose faster even before the funeral service as embalming is done in a few days if not a week in advance.
I don't get it that there is a lock in a casket
Ehhhhem
They thought the corps might turn in to a zombie MARC
Pffffff
That's not real
Great to see that woodprix has new instructions to save my money and energy to build it.
Why would anyone want to know how to open a casket ? Just saying
He’s buying the casket he’s from India so he was asking how to open it because they don’t use them where he from
india the have funeral piars,not caskets....i guess for the plane ride you need one.
You can use a Ziegler box for transport and then transfer the body to the one that is culturally correct.
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They don't put you in one of these in Ireland my wife was in one something like this but wood,my daughter died when I was 19 her coffin was so small but caskets are the Ford mustang of coffins the Irish idea of death is getting really drunk and beating the shit out of every male there!I buried my father in a mahogany coffin he looked asleep.i knew he was definitely dead because he was of hiş rocker and loved stealing things that could not be reported to the Garda. I met a woman after about yr after my wife's suicide a couple of yrs into the relationship she got pregnant at the six mths scan they said it was wrong,our son if he lived at all would be born in to palliative care,after my daughter dying yrs b4 I hoped I never seen a baby's coffin again my so Liam Michael Myler was born on the 5th of March 2010 and died on the 2nd of August 2010, I left the house that day or the next and went to town to get a couple of marvel legends action figures only to come home to find my sons 4ft coffin a foot for every mths,I have buried my two babies my wife and father all b4 37 that's life I get by on sleeping pills valium 💊 pills anti depression pills anti phizcotic pills in ways I've died my name is Paul today I'm sad 😔 😔😔😔😔😔😔😔
Dinheiro jogado fora. Vamos usar mais a cremação!
Please. Just lay me in state in my garage. Then throw me in a hole. PARTAY!
Just put me in an old pine box and leave me be
Morten,
Cremate me! Don't want to turn into sludge and liquid and stink!
I am scared of dying
why? there is nothing to fear beyond the grave
+Taylor Dean-Smith You're not alone!
If you have been born twice you will only die once but if you have been born once you will die twice. Let me know if you have questions.
All men are born in the flesh spiritually dead and as Jesus said you can not see the Kingdom of God unless you are "born again." This spiritual birth (2nd. birth) means you already have eternal life and though you die once in the flesh but are eternally alive spiritually. If one has not been born spiritually (second birth) he will die twice. The bible calls it the second death. Revelation 20:6
+Dodder there's this twilight zone episode regarding this
Why?!
lol what is bindu? tho
something you got to thinking about they funeral.
Waste of money. Cremate me
Why lock a casket???? its not like the deceased is going to run away
My guess is to seal it. or maybe grave robbers
+frenchustube So that people don't steal, because families of the loved ones would place all their treasures inside.
+wongfeihung1847 Locking a casket is for the purpose of protecting the body and what maybe buried with them (jewelry for example) from potential tampering with the grave and remains. The locking system is also a protection mechanism should something happen to the grave and the casket is exposed near or at the surface. If you have ever seen cemeteries in the deep South (USA) after a hurricane or severe heavy rains, there is the chance that the graves will wash away and up comes grandpa and his vault the casket was placed in. New Orleans is a good example of an area being so low below sea level that you will see such events occur after serious and severe storms. Well built burial vaults and good-high quality caskets with locking mechanisms preserve the grave's contents. And for health reasons, the locking and sealing prevents the spread of disease from a decomposing corpse. One other point, embalming of a body does NOT preserve it forever. IT will decompose and so it's a good idea to keep things "under raps" so to speak. Also, in some cases, bodies kept in well sealed caskets/vaults will eventually explode. Despite all that is done prior to burial, decomposition gases can cause problem. Which is why you want a good box to hold grandpa in. This does not always happen, BUT if you are in an area in the deep South where storms and hurricanes cause intense and widespread flooding keeping people in their "box" also helps identify the remains in case Grandpa ends up in Baton Rouge or something like that. :-)
Protects the integrity of the casket. Mowers, setting markers on or nearby, closing the grave, opening and closing nearby graves are all stresses. To a smaller degree it protects the body from voyeurs and thieves in the funeral home. Funeral homes from first cal to burial see more thefts than grave robbing in modern days. I have known more embalmers to carry a gun than store clerks.
Hate coffins
just move on u don't get it