When our loved ones dies, depending on the deceased's culture is what was determined on what would happen to the body. A death on average can be the second most expensive thing a family will spend. In the united states many people have funerals, at cemeteries. Person dies, body is embalmed to last, than buried, and depending on a persons income, the better quality burial. The perseverance of a corpse is become a booming business, and a fad.
“Holy Savior insists that a vault be used to think the ground from sinking into the grave when the casket eventually collapses and creates a depression that mars the uniformity of the grounds and makes mowing difficult” (Harris, 32)
"Pounded out in the factories of an industrializing North, the sturdy metal coffin promised the dead greater protection from the elements" (Harris, 43)
I think it's a bit funny how people find ways to make money off people, from products as simple as food to coffins. Before reading this book, I thought the process of death was, person dies, gets put in a fridge in a morgue or something, funeral service open or closed, than buried. And I thought the coffins just stay there with no problem, and the body decays in it. It's a bit like all the other units we did before this, we think these simple things have a simple process, but it's more complicating than it seems. It's funny how like most things in life the higher quality/price of a coffin wil determine how well protected someones body is, it's like a modern day sarcophagus almost like what ancient egyptians did, so the richer/more money someone spends the more you can be buried like royalty.
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