One of the major Midwestern manufacturers is Brown-Wilbert, makers of the
Wilbert Burial Vault, which has been around since the 1920s. The sales
pitch these days, however, stresses protection of the casket from harmful
"grond elements and immense weight after interment" (availble in three
strength categores). After spending all that money on the casket you
wouldn't want to get it all dirty, would you?

http://www.wilbertvault.com/wilbertway.asp




                                                                                                                                       
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Melissa,

The funerary industry dreams up legal requirements that allegedly make
human
burnials more antiseptic. The cement burial case is the vault installed
inside
a burial hole to receive the coffin during a funeral ceremony. The coffin
slips into the cement case and a cement lid is set over the coffin. The
idea
being that chemicals from the coffin are captured in the burial case and
not
soaked into the surrounding soil. This case, of course, costs a lot of
money and
that cost is passed on to the grieving family.

If you have any doubts about the crassness of the funerary industry, I
recommend you go to your local video library and check out the early 1960s
movie,
The Loved One, starring Jonathan Winters.

Ron May
Legacy 106, Inc.