Professor Elam

In the continuing downturn expect to see many more realistic approaches. Expect people to find alternate careers. One woodworker in Kerrville has done just that with Final Furniture Funeral costs are ridiculously high. And as Final Furniture points out, frankly the body decomposes n matter what kind of fancy box one uses for burial, so back to the past, the plain pine box. 

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As he says this is all part of the green movement, as in dust to dust.