Coffins are one of the most costly elements of a funeral, costing thousands of dollars. Since few laws exist dictating what is acceptable for burial, and most funeral homes onl… See more

You can have a viewing with a sealed casket. Sealed caskets are treated the same as unsealed until the point of burial. If you wish to have a viewing, there is no reason yo… See more

Sealed caskets are meant to be closed permanently, so one would rarely have to be opened. Exhumation is usually done to move the body to another location or plot. On rare oc… See more

As mentioned above, there are environmental factors involved in burials. As the population grows, so do death rates, which leads to an increase in the number of buried bodi… See more