A strange topic that should probably be buried

I didn't make it but I do have really nice casket in my garage. I have heard of people making their own urn

Anyone read Moby Dick?

I used to work with a guy who had researched the regulatory requirements for coffins so that the funeral directors couldn't turn down a homemade coffin because it wasn't good enough in some way. I remember the coworker mentioning simple plywood boxes, not the sort of nice show coffin you might buy or build if you're a woodworker.

Long ago I did read Moby Dick, Mark, but had forgotten about Queequeg's coffin. An internet search told me he used it as a footlocker after he decided he wanted to get well and not die.

I remember there was a book on how to build one.
Zero interest personally.  Cremation is more efficient and you can generally scatter ashes anywhere because the heat of cremation renders them sanitary.  We checked that before scattering ashes in a river once.

John in NM wrote:

Cremation is more efficient and you can generally scatter ashes anywhere because the heat of cremation renders them sanitary.  We checked that before scattering ashes in a river once.

"Ashes" are actually bone dust.  Everything else is vaporized in the 1500*+ heat.  Skeletal remains are then put through a grinder.

https://www.amazon.com/Soylent-Green-Lisa-Black-ebook/dp/B0F4P6Q7M4

And Martha Stewert wants to be composted.

Mark Mandell wrote:

John in NM wrote:

Cremation is more efficient and you can generally scatter ashes anywhere because the heat of cremation renders them sanitary.  We checked that before scattering ashes in a river once.

"Ashes" are actually bone dust.  Everything else is vaporized in the 1500*+ heat.  Skeletal remains are then put through a grinder.

Yeah, logically it shouldn't matter.  But there is nothing logical about the squeamish fears of Homo sapiens, so we use the "sanitary" answer.  You are correct however, nothing but bones left, and not bones so much as whatever calcic oxides the heat leaves behind in the shape of bones.

John in NM wrote:

Mark Mandell wrote:

John in NM wrote:

Cremation is more efficient and you can generally scatter ashes anywhere because the heat of cremation renders them sanitary.  We checked that before scattering ashes in a river once.

"Ashes" are actually bone dust.  Everything else is vaporized in the 1500*+ heat.  Skeletal remains are then put through a grinder.

Yeah, logically it shouldn't matter.  

I take it you don't want Martha composted in your garden.

Mark Mandell wrote:

John in NM wrote:

Mark Mandell wrote:

John in NM wrote:

Cremation is more efficient and you can generally scatter ashes anywhere because the heat of cremation renders them sanitary.  We checked that before scattering ashes in a river once.

"Ashes" are actually bone dust.  Everything else is vaporized in the 1500*+ heat.  Skeletal remains are then put through a grinder.

Yeah, logically it shouldn't matter.  

I take it you don't want Martha composted in your garden.

I live in the desert, no garden here!  Bury her in my yard and the coyotes will dig her up and haul off the parts by sun up!