5 Things Funeral Directors Don't Want You To Know |
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- Опубліковано 27 лип 2024
- Did you know that there's a four feet rule for burying near a tree? Discover super weird facts that funeral homes don't want you to know - including exploding caskets, how you can purchase a casket at a discounted rate, and why a body isn't necessary for a memorial service.
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0:00 Introduction
0:31 Cremation Station Wagon
1:31 Exploding Caskets
2:17 Discount Caskets
3:18 Four Feet Rule
4:05 No Body Needed
4:32 Conclusion
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Thanks for watching! What's the weirdest thing that has ever happened to you at a funeral?
Nit to me. But a nasty old Priest, who was mean already while Nazitime, got a cardiac arrest while a funeral and fell into the grave.
It happened when I was small. Everybody knew it. I am sure the family was in shock,; but somehow it sounds, well,;funny.
When my dear Mamá died, they mixed her with another woman. We asked to open her casket, wanted to give her something into her coffin. If we hadn't, we had a stranger in our family plot and cry for.
At one visitation, for our former neighbor, I was looking at the cards on the flowers & out of the corner of my eye, I would have sworn that I saw his head slightly turn & I jumped, then looked to make sure nobody saw... lol. The other was when my great aunt decided the best place to get a picture of myself & one of my cousins was, yes, right in front of the casket... lol.
The best was my own Mother's funeral, I and my best friend since grade school, and the grave digger had to turn my mother's casket before putting it in the vault because the funeral director, after saying 'I'll take care of it', just left... Everyone else left too because they thought the funeral director was 'taking care of it'... Nope. No, he certainly did not... Now we know why pallbearers are six grown men... lol.
I have worked in a mortuary for 38 years and hold four professional licenses. Funeral Director, Embalmer, Crematory Manager, and an insurance license for prearranged funerals. There are no secrets. Everything is full disclosed, all option are given and explained. There is complete honestly and no pressure to buy or spend more than you want or need to. A successful mortuary is built by repeat business, referrals, and families who have attended services at the mortuary. A good reputation for honesty and fairness goes a long way. Why would you imply that mortuaries are dishonest when that would only work against them and hurt their business by being so.
the real thing they don't want you to know is that you don't have to be embalmed or have a casket at all. naked, cardboard boxed, or wrapped in cloth and placed right into the ground is environmentally friendly and the cheapest way to go.
Some states do require a burial vault, but these laws may be changed as "Green Burials" become more popular.
@@549BR that's not a law in any state. It's cemetery rules
You are required to be embalmed for any of the following in most states. Died from infectious disease open public viewing transfer across state lines or after 72 hours by health department rules. Read my other comment as well below
@@alabamadeep4471 Not in the sane world tho !
@@gowdsake7103 in the United States it's basically the same in every state
It’s funny how people are so ready to find faults in Funeral homes and the director, but no one ever talks about the difficulties of being a funeral director and ensuring a family the most honorable and respectful service. Being a funeral director and crematory operator i have spent many long hours doing this.
Most people, like myself, are astonished how someone can make this his or her vocation. Apparently, this type of work doesn’t seem to bother you. Have you ever seen an event that happened at your funeral parlor that you find mind boggling? Without mentioning names or locations, just off the top of your head, something that even you finds unsettling?
2nd this!!
My husband is actually a funeral home director, and he said the weirdest thing that happened to him was at a burial. A girl leaned down to hug her grandmother and her foot somehow slipped underneath the casket into the hole. Luckily he caught her or it could’ve been bad. Talk about traumatizing! Also another money saving tip... depending on the cemetery you can actually be buried in a plot with no casket or anything and it’s like $450 (at least in Texas). When he first decided to be a funeral director I thought it was sooo weird, but now seeing how much closure and comfort he help bring to people makes me very thankful for him!
Thank you for sharing Brooklyn! That's a great money saving tip as well, thanks for telling us that.
Hello there I just read your comment and I have a question! Can you give me advice about a incident that just happened since your husband is a funeral home director! What happens if he brings the wrong body to the funeral home and it wasn’t the right body!
@@primitivebulliestony9090 like a funeral home brought the wrong body to the funeral? Or picked up the wrong person from a morgue?
@@primitivebulliestony9090 They would have labels on there foot which their imformation
It's not possible. The casket is "always" closed when sitting on top of the lowering device that slowly lowers the casket into the vault that is in the ground.
There is very little clearance around the bottom perimeter of the casket for anyone to slip into the underground vault the casket is lowered into for burial. The casket, when at the grave, is not opened (as a rule) and the claim the deceased's grandaughter was attempting to "hug" her dead grandma is greatly doubtful. Over the many years of being a licensed mortician/funeral director more than likely
Somebody's telling a tall tale here. What is being claimed here is quite a tale of countless other exaggerated funerial dramas that get spread around that simply aren't true.
I saw a 'dark humor' on tictok 'When a crematory burns a body, it's called providing a service but when I do it, it's called destroying evidence'... yes, I laughed ;)
Never thought to look up caskets on Amazon. Wow.
Caskets have a seal that lets gas escape and keeps moisture out……. eventually causing the remains to liquefy inside the casket. This will happen unless you get a wooden casket. Which will allow air flow over the body causing it to hopefully mummify. I’m friends with a mortician. The most that can happen in a mausoleum is that bodily fluids can leak if the mausoleum isn’t built correctly.
Funeral director/mortician here.
Thank you!
Where "do" all these crazy myths come from?
There sure are crazy beliefs people tell each other that are just nonsense. Especially the ones about a dead body sitting up because "the rod" put in their back by the mortician broke.🙄
Nuts!
According to the ask the mortician Channel on here, this can absolutely happen and she showed photos where it actually displaced the mausoleum concrete.
It's my understanding that exploding caskets are associated with the more expensive hermetically sealed caskets that don't let decomposition gasses escape.
Funeral director here.
Exploding caskets? Where do you people get such funerial myths?
All metal caskets have a locking device at the foot of the casket where the top of the casket closes to the bottom. It also is where the top is cranked down to lock the top. It also maintains the same pressure as outside the casket.
Wood caskets do not seal unless it they have a glass liner cover inside and those also do not sustain pressure more than outside the casket.
The whole idea of caskets exploding is a myth. Go to any cemetery. Do you see caskets exploding out of graves or out of burial wall crypts in extremely hot upper 90° to 100° weather?
Believe me, it doesn't happen. If someone tells you it does, they've heard it somewhere and are just repeating a myth.
If meat and foods decay in a fridge does the door explode open from it?
Think.
I'm a board Certified mortician/funeral director in practice many years.
Caskets do not explode. It's a myth! Even modern rubber gasketed sealer caskets to not explode because they have a pressure relief valve that regulates an even constant air pressure even during air flights in cargo bays where there is a great differance in air pressure at high altitudes. Even in the event of a pressure relief valve malfunction, the rubber seal will slowly equlize the internal pressure of the
the casket.
Ive been in the funeral business for years. Believe me. It just cannot happen
physiologically.
This person in the vid is not very educated in mortuary science and is shamefully embarrassing herself.
@@johnsherman6718 came to say the same thing! Basically the only part in the whole video that is accurate is the discount coffins.
In Australia you can do natural burial next to or under a tree at 4ft in special enviro caskets but not standard wooden coffins or caskets.
Can’t comment on the viewing, we only do viewings if requested but we also don’t really embalm here either unless absolutely required for varying reasons. So it’s not really a problem.
they cause areobic bacteria they actually can make decomp faster but that depends on other factures
You forgot embalming isnt needed or required
Can we use these to make chips for the chip shortages for the automotive industry?
Nice!
You really need to go to mortuary school to be factual about this topic. You are quite "off" here on many points.
That’s why we embalm bodies in Australia before they go into a vault.
Mortician here. The information on caskets is correct. You can get a casket off Amazon Wal-Mart or China. Just make sure it's delivered on time from your source and you may need to sign a liability waver not holding the home responsible if it fails. Same with urns.
She is incorrect on planting trees and roots growing around the casket. The roots will grow through it.
Vaults are a cemetery requirement for heavy equipment. Not something a funeral director will make you buy. You either need one or not. Or want.
You need to be licensed to embalm. State law in most states and to direct a funeral a license is also required. Embalming may be required by law if the deceased died from a infectious disease past 72 hours by health regulations if refrigeration is not used holding a public viewing or crossing state lines.
Cremation price on national average is 6 grand. It is not always cheaper. You have refrigeration charges and cremation container pick up and removal with a charge to do the death certificates. Caskets can explode if not embalmed. It's rare. On funeral charges you will have basic service of funeral director and staff hearse embalming casket vault casketing and dressing hair dresser and removal of the deceased. On burial she should add cemetery costs as well. Opening and closing A tent chairs lowering device ECT. That will cost several thousand more or less depending on cemetery pricing. So a average funeral is really ten grand plus cemetery so about 13k. A casket may be a policy to have at the cemetery as well. In the end the directors don't own the home. We get paid either way so you choose what you need or want or what is required.
Thank you for setting her straight. I thought her video was mostly ridiculous, and misinformed!
@@Luluisraging.86 you're welcome. Yes, misinformation is out there in videos like these. Truth is, nobody can truly know unless you work in this field. There's so much to it. I never covered if the person dies in one state and then sent to another. So here is that breakdown.
First, use only one funeral home in the person's home state. They will network another home in the state where they passed. The two homes will work together to bring the deceased back for burial. Here charges are applied for what the home state funeral home can not do. Embalming and pick up. From there depending on distance, they will drive or fly the deceased back. Usually 3 dollars or so a loaded mile. Charges are normally less if the funeral home on home state contacts the home where they passed. If not and used the opposite way. The charges are normally higher. So I would advise letting the funeral home make the calls. It will be more expensive but that's due to what is needed to cross state lines and mileage.
I WANT TO BE BARIED IN A BOX. NO COST FOR MY FAMILY
@@rhondaclark716 have them file for indigent burial if your county does so.
@@alabamadeep4471 Thanks I want to be buried in a box , good for environmental. And my family is so poor , I wouldn’t want them to pay for anything. Because I’ll be in heaven with all the other people 👼🏼👼🏼👼🏾
Cremation isn’t that much ‘better for the environment’; the process of cremation actually generates a ton of air pollutants like sulfur dioxide that are super toxic…also ashes have a super high pH level and don’t decompose so if they’re scattered anywhere they’re essentially stunting plant growth and poisoning the soil….I think I’d rather be buried.
Alkaline Hydrolysis is the best next thing to the traditional cremation.Its widely considered environment friendly.
How'd you have a viewing without a body? I think you mean visitation not viewing.
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You haven’t been to mortuary school nor do you have a license so therefore just because you search something up does not mean it’s true and another thing I’d check with a actual funeral director before making a video on this
Thank you.
Yes, thank you.
Thank you immensely. I've had years of mortuary schooling, have been Board Certified, and been in the funeral business for years. Thank you for telling the truth sir!
Really disappointed in this. You discredited the entire funeral service industry.
funeral homes prey on vulnerables.
If that's how you feel then before you're ready to die. Arrange for eskimos to push you out to sea on a chunck of ice. You can wave good bye to everyone and float off.
cremation burns as hot as a house
My great nam was cremated in January 2020 and my cousinin august 2021
I call BS on your claim metal is removed prior to the cremation process. The ONLY thing that is removed are Pace maker as they can cause a reactive thermal micro burst in the retort, as such the are removed. They DO NOT remove and recycle artificial joints prior to the cremation process. These items are cremated with the body then separated from the cremains, with the cremains being returned to the family VOID the cremated artificial joints, screws etc. The retort operators are NOT opening bodies and removing joint prior to cremation.
As an independent removal specialist, I have performed just under 6,000 removals, 1,324 this past 19 months. I have had over 4,000 going to direct cremation, NOT ONE OF THEM HAVE EVER had an artificial joint removed prior to cremation, EVER. However, Pacemakers are in fact removed for safety.
Side Note: Your claim caskets are only compromised in burials performed above surface is also void of fact. Caskets buried within vaults below surface also have a compromise rate due to the expansion gas rate via decomposition. Decomposition occurs below surface and produces gas just as it does above surface and caskets are in fact compromised BELOW surface as well.
Not sure where she got her so called “facts” but it’s obvious she has no clue what she’s talking about.
@Just Jules You certainly have that correct!
I'm a funeral director and you make us sound like crooks. All you have to do is ask questions and by law you have to be told. Like you said it's a buisness for the living. I don't bash you on youtube bc you make money off of videos bashing others professions and all the other stuffyou talk about lol
The offspring of the NEPHLIUM giants. Die and become spirts then they take over another humans body.
I’m not a licensed funeral director, but this video seems poorly made and lacking in factual information. Except for the consumer’s ability to buy a casket from Costco….that part is true (but who cares!?)
Wired lol
None of this Is new or disgusting...you took known facts and reworked them to create a disrespectful silly post.
Tasteless
TIP make your own casket. bam i just saved you 800 dollars.