The occupant of the casket is deceased and has no idea what happens if the gasket fails or not. Only the living fools worry about such nonsense. My Dad was killed in an accident 13 years ago and I have not once worried about water flooding or bugs getting inside his casket. People need to focus on things they can control, period.
True, in a mausoleum or other above ground crypt, either choose the lower priced non sealer casket, or if you choose a sealer casket, it has to not be sealed before it is interred in an above ground mausoleum or crypt.
I am an usher at St. Agnes Catholic Church in Fowlerville, MI and on the shelf under our old lectern in our Parish hall, we have a couple of these hex wrench cranks. I found them over five years ago, and immediately knew what they are used for, even though I am not there for Funeral Masses. I even measured one of them once and it is of a larger diameter than what you would usually find in a tool department in a store, but not too large to be a hard to find item otherwise, if I remember correctly, 5/32 of an inch in diameter from point to point through the middle of the wrench. Anyhow, since SARS-COV-2, I haven't been there in person since March 14, 2020 and can't wait until all of this is all over with! Interesting topics from you, Ms. Candice L, you must be a licensed funeral director? I am not, however, the older one gets, the more interested one becomes in what eventually happens to all of us between this life and the next!
Thank uou so much, for this. Im going back yo school at age 50. To become a mortician ,and a funeral director. This was very helpful. I have had questions for, a long time. About keys And would like to know more, but have, always, felt very dumb about asking. Thank you again. Have an awesome night.
Why seal it? Buried in the ground, usually in a vault, seems highly unlikely for it to be opened. As for those rubber gaskets, only last a short time. Deteriorates as all rubber does, then the seal is gone. Even if no outside things get in, the body and the air trapped in upon closing a casket, mold will form, moisture in the air, would have to be vacuumed out. All the while no one will see the decomposition ( outside of an exhumation). A useless effort to a burial. The body is buried so it can decompose safely from the living. That's the entire purpose. Our culture dresses it all as a nice send-off, for this " rest in peace" pretend attitude. It's a nice thought to think the buried person will look pristine for many decades as it is seen at the funeral. Not how it really is.
What haunts me is ,my grandmother's grave was half full of water . They told me the water will push out as the casket goes down. She was in a vault also . I feel they should of not put her in there like that .
The funeral homes have pumps and should have pumped the water out of the grave opening before burial. Don't let it haunt you since your precious grandmother was put in a vault also. I'm not in the funeral business but my best friend is and has explained alot of things.
Hi there! Been a few years since I have seen my grandfather at his cemetery as it is out of state in Boynton Beach FL. I just went to visit the other day, and I was very upset. His stone has sunk about 4 inches below the grass, and half the stone was covered in dirt and weeds. Is this something I can complain about to the cemetery staff? Would there be a way that they can re-set the stone so it is level? The stone is about 21 years old... last I visited was 5 years ago and it was not this bad.
@@cherylgillis4978 The cemetery that my parents are buried in and eventually I will also, they use bronze grave markers that are ground-level so it's easier for the grass to be cut by groundskeepers.
In the UK we do not have caskets or vaults. People are buried in coffins which are designed to decay and become one with the earth. Why would you want your loved one rotting in a steel water logged box or mummifying? it just seems so weird to me.
I've never understood why people get concerned about water getting into a casket. I realize that the deceased is a loved one, but they are dead, and are completely unaware of anything that may or may not be happening underground. Common sense tells us that everything degrades over time (including our loved ones in the ground), and so it's always seemed crazy to me that people would spend outrageous sums of money on a casket that is going to leak anyway. I'd much rather my loved ones save that money and use it to do something fun. Do it in my memory if it gives you comfort. When my time comes, I want my loved ones to cheap-out everywhere they can. Don't buy an expensive casket, a hole in the ground, or a concrete vault. Just burn me up and do what you want with my ashes. God will figure out how to put me back together one day. He created the universe from nothing, so I'm sure he can handle me.
Why is it that there aren't any wood caskets that have that vise like threaded rod to seal the lid to their sides and bottoms? I have never seen one made in wood, probably because it is a porous material, not like 16, 18, or 20 gauge steel, copper, bronze, stainless steel, or even fiberglas or ABS plastic. Interestingly the first time that I ever saw one of these mechanisms used was back in around 1990 or 1991 in Friday The Thirteenth The Series TV show about the magic aspirator that could bring the dead back to life, or not, depending on the whim of the funeral director in the show! Obviously, it was fiction, the aspirator was something such as you would use for cavity embalming, known as a trocar, but the use of the sealing and unsealing mechanism was accurate, and this is where I first found out about it.
The locks are opnly for metal casket as they act as a seal to help prevent outside elements from getting in the casket. Wood caskets break down over time and can't really "seal"
@@candicel7683 That is so true, considering even wood sealed with polyurethane will still become porous once again once the polyurethane wears off from being in either the Earth or above it such as in a mausoleum or crypt.
@Gabriel Gonzales well you'd be calling the police on a dead person, he died 2 years ago in a shoot out, he was cremated and had his ashes scattered in Sicily.
In the U.K. 🇬🇧the belief is that the deceased is buried in order that they may return to the elements. “EARTH TO EARTH! ASHES TO ASHES! DUST TO DUST” those words are often expressed by the clergy as the coffin is lowered into the grave. Muslim/Arabic/Jewish burials don’t even use a “container” the body is just covered in swaddling sheets. Countries have differing views on burial traditions.
Either the deceased is put in a fabric covered cardboard or wood casket and the whole casket and body is put into the retort, or they are put into a rental casket (can be wood, metal, or any other material). These have a panel that comes off of the foot end (using the same hex wrench as is used for raising and lowering the bed, sealing or unsealing the lid), and the deceased is first put in a liner which will slide out with their body into the retort after this panel is removed in the foot end of the rental casket. This is a much nicer, more respectful way to conduct funeral services when the deceased is to be cremated afterwards instead of buried or entombed. It allows visitation (after embalming and restoration of course if it is an open casket visitation), their body to be present for Mass Of The Resurrection if they are Roman Catholic, which is the preferred rite for funerals in this faith, instead of only an urn with cremains present at this Mass (definitely not preferred, but the overly economical way to conduct these). So, there are three ways that cremation funeral services are conducted, the first two are much better than the third, but it depends on what the survivors are willing to pay for and also what their religion (if any), requires or prefers.
Question. What is the purpose of the gasket when the lid is made of two parts with a small gap in between? When we buried my great grandmother I could see right through the slit between the upper and bottom doors.
My mother was buried a week ago in a sealed casket but before they buried her they opened the casket so we could see her for the last time, then they didn’t locked the casket when they buried her, is there any problem by that?
They have a warehouse in Livonia, MI that will also show you the same thing, or describe how it actually works, it is not unlike a workbench vise in how it cranks in or out.
@@candicel7683 from what I’ve learned, they’re used mostly in tightly sealed caskets so that as pressure builds up, it can be released to prevent them from exploding.
I’m confused. In one video I saw that you placed the key under the pillow. In this video you used the key outside the casket to lock it. Is placing the key under a pillow a temporary storage solution? What do you do with the key after you use it?
Hello. Thanks for the video. At 1:40 the camera moves to the foot of the casket to the hole where the crank is inserted. The lid looks like it’s off alignment. Why is that? Are the caskets made in China?
It's amazing that even when the casket lid is locked down and sealed, gases that build up in the decomposition of the body can blow that lid right off. I'm assuming that only happens in crypts and not a casket that's buried in the ground where it has a ton of dirt on top of the casket.
The occupant of the casket is deceased and has no idea what happens if the gasket fails or not. Only the living fools worry about such nonsense. My Dad was killed in an accident 13 years ago and I have not once worried about water flooding or bugs getting inside his casket. People need to focus on things they can control, period.
Thanks for sharing. Also, I have learned today that a body can explode in a mausoleum.
True, in a mausoleum or other above ground crypt, either choose the lower priced non sealer casket, or if you choose a sealer casket, it has to not be sealed before it is interred in an above ground mausoleum or crypt.
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I am an usher at St. Agnes Catholic Church in Fowlerville, MI and on the shelf under our old lectern in our Parish hall, we have a couple of these hex wrench cranks. I found them over five years ago, and immediately knew what they are used for, even though I am not there for Funeral Masses. I even measured one of them once and it is of a larger diameter than what you would usually find in a tool department in a store, but not too large to be a hard to find item otherwise, if I remember correctly, 5/32 of an inch in diameter from point to point through the middle of the wrench. Anyhow, since SARS-COV-2, I haven't been there in person since March 14, 2020 and can't wait until all of this is all over with! Interesting topics from you, Ms. Candice L, you must be a licensed funeral director? I am not, however, the older one gets, the more interested one becomes in what eventually happens to all of us between this life and the next!
Thank uou so much, for this. Im going back yo school at age 50. To become a mortician ,and a funeral director. This was very helpful. I have had questions for, a long time. About keys And would like to know more, but have, always, felt very dumb about asking. Thank you again. Have an awesome night.
Lower lid of that casket is bent
Why seal it? Buried in the ground, usually in a vault, seems highly unlikely for it to be opened. As for those rubber gaskets, only last a short time. Deteriorates as all rubber does, then the seal is gone. Even if no outside things get in, the body and the air trapped in upon closing a casket, mold will form, moisture in the air, would have to be vacuumed out. All the while no one will see the decomposition ( outside of an exhumation). A useless effort to a burial. The body is buried so it can decompose safely from the living. That's the entire purpose. Our culture dresses it all as a nice send-off, for this " rest in peace" pretend attitude. It's a nice thought to think the buried person will look pristine for many decades as it is seen at the funeral. Not how it really is.
Dan, I think caskets are sealed just to be on the safe side to prevent robbery such as jewelry, etc from the body. I would assume so anyway.
What haunts me is ,my grandmother's grave was half full of water .
They told me the water will push out as the casket goes down.
She was in a vault also .
I feel they should of not put her in there like that .
The funeral homes have pumps and should have pumped the water out of the grave opening before burial. Don't let it haunt you since your precious grandmother was put in a vault also. I'm not in the funeral business but my best friend is and has explained alot of things.
One job I’ll never do in this life . Because I’ll be doing everything I can to bring them back to live I’m too emotional
Awesome! Thanks for sharing, love your tik toks too! Xoxo
Hi there! Been a few years since I have seen my grandfather at his cemetery as it is out of state in Boynton Beach FL. I just went to visit the other day, and I was very upset. His stone has sunk about 4 inches below the grass, and half the stone was covered in dirt and weeds. Is this something I can complain about to the cemetery staff? Would there be a way that they can re-set the stone so it is level? The stone is about 21 years old... last I visited was 5 years ago and it was not this bad.
Yes contact the cemetery and let them know and they should fix it for you
In Michigan they have to pour a cement slab to set the headstone on so that doesn't happen
@@cherylgillis4978 The cemetery that my parents are buried in and eventually I will also, they use bronze grave markers that are ground-level so it's easier for the grass to be cut by groundskeepers.
The Body Rot’s inside any Cascket. Sealed or Unsealed. Regaurdless, You can’t STOP, water from getting into any Cascket, with a rotting Body.
Can you please turn the settings off for being made for" kids". The app will not allow me to get notifications if you choose it being made for kids
Then people can't make comments
I got a notification of Candice's previous video and it was made for kids, so there wasn't any comments, but I still got the notification anyway.
In the UK we do not have caskets or vaults. People are buried in coffins which are designed to decay and become one with the earth. Why would you want your loved one rotting in a steel water logged box or mummifying? it just seems so weird to me.
All Cascket’s will explode over time as the rotting corpse throws off Gases.
I've never understood why people get concerned about water getting into a casket. I realize that the deceased is a loved one, but they are dead, and are completely unaware of anything that may or may not be happening underground. Common sense tells us that everything degrades over time (including our loved ones in the ground), and so it's always seemed crazy to me that people would spend outrageous sums of money on a casket that is going to leak anyway. I'd much rather my loved ones save that money and use it to do something fun. Do it in my memory if it gives you comfort. When my time comes, I want my loved ones to cheap-out everywhere they can. Don't buy an expensive casket, a hole in the ground, or a concrete vault. Just burn me up and do what you want with my ashes. God will figure out how to put me back together one day. He created the universe from nothing, so I'm sure he can handle me.
Why is it that there aren't any wood caskets that have that vise like threaded rod to seal the lid to their sides and bottoms? I have never seen one made in wood, probably because it is a porous material, not like 16, 18, or 20 gauge steel, copper, bronze, stainless steel, or even fiberglas or ABS plastic. Interestingly the first time that I ever saw one of these mechanisms used was back in around 1990 or 1991 in Friday The Thirteenth The Series TV show about the magic aspirator that could bring the dead back to life, or not, depending on the whim of the funeral director in the show! Obviously, it was fiction, the aspirator was something such as you would use for cavity embalming, known as a trocar, but the use of the sealing and unsealing mechanism was accurate, and this is where I first found out about it.
The locks are opnly for metal casket as they act as a seal to help prevent outside elements from getting in the casket. Wood caskets break down over time and can't really "seal"
@@candicel7683 That is so true, considering even wood sealed with polyurethane will still become porous once again once the polyurethane wears off from being in either the Earth or above it such as in a mausoleum or crypt.
I really appreciate the honesty in your posts, as compared to some other funeral directors on social media who make conjectural statements.
I had a gangster uncle that would rob graves, he told me breaking a casket gasket wasn't too hard with a pry bar
@Gabriel Gonzales well you'd be calling the police on a dead person, he died 2 years ago in a shoot out, he was cremated and had his ashes scattered in Sicily.
What if someone wants to unbury a casket and take the body out and bury it elsewhere, can we get the key back to open it?
How do you raise/Lower the inner part of a casket please?
Thanks ,and appreciate your explanation how it all works.Not every one can do that job.
Well the person isn't there anyhow.
Water getting in shouldn’t be an issue considering the person is dead
Well the issue is with contamination of groundwater.
here in Britain we just use Screws to hold down the wooden lid ..
In the U.K. 🇬🇧the belief is that the deceased is buried in order that they may return to the elements. “EARTH TO EARTH! ASHES TO ASHES! DUST TO DUST” those words are often expressed by the clergy as the coffin is lowered into the grave.
Muslim/Arabic/Jewish burials don’t even use a “container” the body is just covered in swaddling sheets.
Countries have differing views on burial traditions.
Does steel burial vaults hold off the water I heard that they do?
I pray they do
I have heard they can but our funeral home does not use them
@@candicel7683 okay thanks candice I figured they were used all over america..
Hello there please will do a video video off how you do the casket befour someone gets a cremation done four me.
Either the deceased is put in a fabric covered cardboard or wood casket and the whole casket and body is put into the retort, or they are put into a rental casket (can be wood, metal, or any other material). These have a panel that comes off of the foot end (using the same hex wrench as is used for raising and lowering the bed, sealing or unsealing the lid), and the deceased is first put in a liner which will slide out with their body into the retort after this panel is removed in the foot end of the rental casket. This is a much nicer, more respectful way to conduct funeral services when the deceased is to be cremated afterwards instead of buried or entombed. It allows visitation (after embalming and restoration of course if it is an open casket visitation), their body to be present for Mass Of The Resurrection if they are Roman Catholic, which is the preferred rite for funerals in this faith, instead of only an urn with cremains present at this Mass (definitely not preferred, but the overly economical way to conduct these). So, there are three ways that cremation funeral services are conducted, the first two are much better than the third, but it depends on what the survivors are willing to pay for and also what their religion (if any), requires or prefers.
Hello there thank you very much four replying back to me and thank you very much four explining to me about this.
How can I find the key. One of my relative dead body comes from Italy to Bangladesh by air. So I must need to know where the key is I found
Also is this place in america and what istate in america is this.
Florida
Hello thank you four telling me the country.
Question. What is the purpose of the gasket when the lid is made of two parts with a small gap in between? When we buried my great grandmother I could see right through the slit between the upper and bottom doors.
With all due respect, you need to learn the correct terms before making such a video.
My mother was buried a week ago in a sealed casket but before they buried her they opened the casket so we could see her for the last time, then they didn’t locked the casket when they buried her, is there any problem by that?
Thank you for posting. I wasn't sure how the gasket sealed.
I had always wonder what sealed the casket.
I had a friend that looked at one and he found hidden vent hole here the handles are.
batesville?
They have a warehouse in Livonia, MI that will also show you the same thing, or describe how it actually works, it is not unlike a workbench vise in how it cranks in or out.
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Nice watch
When they make caskets that “burp” where does it come out?
I don't know of caskets that burp
@@candicel7683 from what I’ve learned, they’re used mostly in tightly sealed caskets so that as pressure builds up, it can be released to prevent them from exploding.
Well they don't open the mausoleums to burp then nor do they that I have seen before we place them in
I’m confused. In one video I saw that you placed the key under the pillow. In this video you used the key outside the casket to lock it. Is placing the key under a pillow a temporary storage solution? What do you do with the key after you use it?
Oh that was to lower and raise the bed in the casket
The same key that is used to lower the bed is also used to seal the casket.
Hello. Thanks for the video. At 1:40 the camera moves to the foot of the casket to the hole where the crank is inserted. The lid looks like it’s off alignment. Why is that? Are the caskets made in China?
I think it is just a camera angle. It lined up fine and NO it is not a casket from China
If youre buried alive aint no getting out of that
I notice there the lock mechanism is the seal is compromised, the sealing bubble is cut to accommodate the lock and doesn’t seal.
It's amazing that even when the casket lid is locked down and sealed, gases that build up in the decomposition of the body can blow that lid right off. I'm assuming that only happens in crypts and not a casket that's buried in the ground where it has a ton of dirt on top of the casket.
I think it happens anyway even if the casket is under ground. I could be mistaken