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.