Why doesn't Rubbermaid make caskets?

I've been involved in the conversations that ended up with the purchase of a $2,000 casket. Casket purchaser: "Don't you think he'd like this wood?" Me: It's nice wood. Have you looked at the caskets in the back?" Me (In my head): "He's dead. He doesn't care. I'd be fine with a dumpster. Also, why would you want to bury that pretty walnut?"

I have made the environmentally sound decision to have my body mocked by medical students.

You know criminals will bury you with lime. That takes care of business.

Is lime an ecologically good thing to be burying?

Yay, Phillies!

I got cited in the New York Times!

That's cool, Hec.

Is lime an ecologically good thing to be burying?

If you've got acid soil.

I have mom's ashes in a box and have no clue what to do with them. Before she passed she had talked about being sprinkled in our garden. But we have moved and don't have our own garden any more. Plus SHE was the one with a green thumb. Me - I'm luck to keep a silk plant alive.

Yay, Phillies!

I'm sayin'.

That's cool, Hec.

I think so. I had a brief moment of thinking, "I wish I had the kind of parents that would think it was cool that I got cited in the New York Times." Which was, unfortunately, followed by the thought, "I wish had parents."

Oh well, select Buffistas think it's cool.

I think it's freakin' awesome! I was distracted by candy pronunciation and baseball, so I neglected to post that thought, though.

Super cool.

It is super cool. And I don't want to be cremated unless I can specify whose face to throw my ashes in.

Definitely cool, Hec. Also validation.

I kinda like the shroud thing. Although coolest burial I've come across so far is to be entombed in New Orleans, because the tombs heat up so much that within a year most bodies are naturally cremated.

Living in LA it unlikely that I would end up buried in NO. I'll have to look into whether or not the mausoleums in LA do the same thing.