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I'm Victor M. Sweeney, licensed funeral director, and I'm here today to answer questions from Twitter.

DZ1B21, why the different shapes of caskets?

Typically in the United States, when we're talking about a receptacle to bury a dead body, we talk about a casket.

Oftentimes in other parts of the world, you're going to see what's called a coffin.

So a coffin is what we might call anthropoid-shaped, narrower at the top where the head is, wider at the shoulders, and then narrow down at the feet.

Other countries around the world tend to use coffins, and we use the term even colloquially here in the United States.

So when you hear someone talk about grandma's in the coffin, odds are good, she's in a rectangular casket.

Lamia233, can you spread ashes anywhere, or are there legal restrictions on that?

This is such a good question, and it's one I'm asked all the time.

Typically, a state does not really have a vested interest on what you do with human cremated remains.

So you could scatter them essentially anywhere you like.

In my state, a family has visitation rights where a person is scattered.

So if you scatter grandma in the bed of her garden, you end up with visitation rights to that flower bed in perpetuity.

You can also do other things with cremated remains.

I've heard that you can press them into records.

There are all sorts of things that you can do with cremated remains because they are simply pulverized bone dust, and they're inert carbons.

Everything that is organic in them is gone.

It's not going to feed a tree, as people commonly like to think, but you can do with them mostly whatever you wish.

Are funeral pyres and Viking funerals a thing anymore?

There is one place, Creststone in Colorado, that does allow a funeral pyre.

So that does exist, but you have to live in a very specific locale.

A funeral pyre, as we're thinking of it here, is usually a large pile of wood or other flammable material that a body is set on top of, and then the whole thing is set alight.

As far as Viking funerals, this is kind of a misnomer.

You're probably thinking of putting your loved one in a boat with their hands on the pommel of their sword and pushing them out into the lake, shooting flaming arrows at it until it goes up in flames.

Viking funerals actually weren't like that.

They were buried with their sword in boats and all sorts of grave goods, but the boat was dragged on land and buried intact.

Why do people take photos of the dead in a casket at funerals and post it on social media?

Interesting thing, in most places, the right to take a picture of the deceased falls to the family, so they can either allow it or disallow it.

But I agree, don't put it on social media.

That's something that should be kept just for your own personal use.

Next up, we have a question from Stan Comb Wills.

Who gets to decide who gets invited to my funeral?

They can decide who will come and likewise, who is not allowed there.

Fun fact, you do not need an invitation to attend a funeral.

There was a gal that I used to know back at one of the funeral homes I worked with.

Her first name was Bunny and Bunny would come to every funeral regardless of denomination and location and I am certain she didn't know that many people.

She came for those sweet, sweet scallop potatoes and ham.

How come cemeteries never run out of space?

Sometimes cemeteries do run out of space.

In larger metropolitan areas, sometimes it's the case where families will actually bury their loved ones on top of existing graves.

In certain other countries and in other parts of the world, you actually just rent a grave space.

So for instance, in Germany, your grave space is not your mom's or dad's forever but for a period of years after which your rent expires, they dig up the dead and they put them elsewhere in a common grave usually.

Sky burial is a practice that takes place in Tibet or Nepal where bodies are actually left out and hacked apart for condors and vultures to eat.

The way that they render a human body to just bones is by letting animals do the work.

Do funeral homes have busy times of the year or is it just dead all year?

Fall and spring are gonna be the busier times of year.

Fall because the weather change has something to do with there being more deaths and spring is usually busier, especially where I'm from where it's cold.

We have a normal workload and then all sorts of burials that we had to delay over winter.

That end stretch of winter into spring when everything starts to melt, the ground is simply too soggy to even set foot in the cemetery, let alone bring a whole line of cars and a casket.

Why are funeral homes always family owned?

Interestingly enough, more and more we're seeing funeral homes get bought up by corporate entities.

So it could be that your local funeral home, despite being called the Smith family funeral home, is actually owned by a larger conglomerate who might operate five, six, 10 funeral homes in your area.

I think you'll always find that the business where you know the owner and they live in your locality and they shop at your stores are generally going to be more caring and more transparent than the ones that are there simply to turn a profit.

So I'm completing my organ donation form.

You can literally donate everything, including skin, bones, and tendons.

Because there will be nothing to put in the box.

Most organ donation companies, those procurers, they don't take everything.

They'll take the femur, they'll take some of the muscle, they might even skin the whole thing so it looks like one big nasty roast beef, but then they also will provide us with a large wooden dowel that's the exact shape of the femur.

So we can kind of rebuild the shape of the leg.

How do you talk to your children about death?

Would love to hear from parents who have tackled this tough topic.

Probably my best piece of advice for parents when they talk to kids about death is don't say it's like grandpa fell asleep.

I think little kids can conflate the two.

I would say be honest with children about death.

Tell them the reality that someone is no longer living.

Kids typically, I think, have a better handle on death.

And really, especially elementary school aged children,

I think they have a want to be involved when they come to a funeral.

There's so many times where I see families come and they kind of shuffle the kids off somewhere else and say that death is for adults.

But really, death affects every single one of us.

So there are a lot of things on the green spectrum that we can do with funerals.

It could be something like we bury the body without a casket and without a vault straight in the ground.

It could cover something like having, we call resumation or decomposition instead of cremation.

It could be something like using a wooden casket instead of metal, or even using what they call eco-embalming fluids.

So embalming fluids made out of methyl alcohols instead of carcinogens like formaldehyde.

All right, here's a really good question from cateraid.

It is too cold to go for a walk, so I went to the mausoleum, as one does.

Why anyone would want to spend eternity in a safe deposit box is beyond me.

One distinction to make, mausoleum generally refers to a large building that houses full caskets above the ground.

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