# Are you up to choosing your casket? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [September 1, 1999, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-up-to-choosing-your-casket/2969 "1999-09-01T04:36:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![savcash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e95f7d/32.png) [@savcash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/savcash)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 1999, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-up-to-choosing-your-casket/2969/1 "1999-09-01T04:36:00Z")
We are taking a one question poll over at the NCRA (non profit funeral watchdog group) and would like to see if a few of you would like to pick out the type of material your casket should/would be. To study industry trends. Thanks, [http://www.casketstores.com](http://www.casketstores.com) * * * “Does love have a limit? Neither does forgiveness” ---
**Author:** ![funneefarmer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/9fc348/32.png) [@funneefarmer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/funneefarmer)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 1999, 10:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-up-to-choosing-your-casket/2969/2 "1999-09-01T10:01:00Z")
I just voted Cherry. Nothing like the look of Cherry to say “Hey, I’m dead and loving every minute of it” ---
**Author:** ![BunnyGirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@BunnyGirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BunnyGirl)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 1999, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-up-to-choosing-your-casket/2969/3 "1999-09-01T14:33:00Z")
Plain 'ol pine for me. Eeeeew, 20 gauge steel with a gasket. Why? So I can liquify and slosh around like beer in a can? ---
**Author:** ![manhattan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manhattan/32/7_2.png) [@manhattan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manhattan)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 1999, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-up-to-choosing-your-casket/2969/4 "1999-09-01T14:54:00Z")
Just burn what’s left after the organ guys and the science classes are done with me, and toss the ashes into a garden somewhere. ## But bless you guys for taking on the evil monopolist ripoff mortuary industry. Livin’ on Tums, Vitamin E and Rogaine ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 1999, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-up-to-choosing-your-casket/2969/5 "1999-09-02T05:51:00Z")
Here in GA, there is a law (currently being challenged) which states that caskets, et al. can only be sold by a funeral home. Uh, why? Should I only be able to buy a bassinet in a maternity ward? Or get envelopes only from the Post Office? Dumb laws… I’m with Bunnny - simple untreated pine. No hinges, just nail it shut. Hey, Bunny, wanna share? Two, two, two stiffs in one! * * * The overwhelming majority of people have more than the average (mean) number of legs. – E. Grebenik ---
**Author:** ![Strainger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/strainger/32/244_2.png) [@Strainger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Strainger)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 1999, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-up-to-choosing-your-casket/2969/6 "1999-09-01T18:03:00Z")
No casket for me, thanks. Just burry me with my ass sticking out of the ground so that visitors have somewhere to park their bikes. ---
**Author:** ![Strainger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/strainger/32/244_2.png) [@Strainger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Strainger)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 1999, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-up-to-choosing-your-casket/2969/7 "1999-09-01T18:04:00Z")
I mean “bury.” ---
**Author:** ![jwg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@jwg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jwg)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 1999, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-up-to-choosing-your-casket/2969/8 "1999-09-01T19:35:00Z")
I would like the simplest possible, the equivalent of a plain pine box. I am sure that the evil Funeral Barons running the mortuary cartel have bought enough politicians to make something more elaborate mandatory. I told my wife that I wanted to leave my body to science (she suggested science fiction/horror). Actually she objected and wants my carcass interred in one of those above ground condos they have now. She says she can’t stand the thought that I would be cut up by students somewhere. I don’t understand this. She and her familiy never visit the cemetery, and I have no desire for them to spend the little money I intend to leave them on my funeral. I suggested a compromise - If I go first, she gives me a conventional burial instead of giving my body to medical school. If she goes first, I donate her body to the school. ---
**Author:** ![AWB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bb73d2/32.png) [@AWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AWB)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 1999, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-up-to-choosing-your-casket/2969/9 "1999-09-01T19:50:00Z")
I want to be cremated and spread around my mom’s house, so she’ll have to clean up after me one last time. ---
**Author:** ![BunnyGirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@BunnyGirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BunnyGirl)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 1999, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-up-to-choosing-your-casket/2969/10 "1999-09-01T20:27:00Z")
Strainger, the picture you put in my head with your burial request is priceless! Doc, hey, sounds good! If you go first, have 'em stick you on ice and we’ll share. A big wake for all! Should be a heck of a party, eh!? ---
**Author:** ![cmetzb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@cmetzb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmetzb)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 1999, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-up-to-choosing-your-casket/2969/11 "1999-09-02T20:32:00Z")
Strainger, That is great!!! Why do I care what I am burried in? I’m dead right.