Believe it or not, it's called a "lowering device"
A tomb is a structure that typically is above ground in which the casket is placed. A grave is a hole in the ground in which the casket is placed. A tomb stone is a structure placed above a grave to mark the location of the grave.
if the U.S. flag is used to cover a casket at a funeral can the flag be lowered into the grave?
Probably for the things in the casket
They are about to exhume the casket from the grave.
Possible, but unlikely. In most places, a casket or coffin is placed in a metal or concrete vault which is placed in the grave before the casket.
It depends on the quality of the casket. Most modern American casket won't. p { margin-bottom: 0.25cm; line-height: 120%; }a:link { } The former Belmont Casket Company of Columbus (OH), for example, placed advertisements showing one of their steel caskets with some 50 bags of cement on top in order to demonstrate the capacity of a Belmont casket to withstand the weight an pressure of earth in a grave without the need of an outer burial container to prevent the grave form caving in.
The act of digging a grave to be eventually occupied by a deceased's casket is not illegal. The acts of Grave Robbing(self-explanatory) and Grave Desecration (destruction and disturbing a grave) are criminal offenses.
The expression "a pauper's casket" can relate to a low cost casket provided by the government for indigent people. Sometimes a reusable casket is meant: in former times indigent dead people were taken to the cemetery in a casket with a bottom which could be opened up; then, at the graveside the shrouded corpse was left in the grave while the casket was reused again.
no unless you go to her grave and dig all of the dirt out but dont
When the grave is dug all of the dirt removed from the hole will go back into the hole when the casket is placed in the grave. The casket will displace the soil removed from that spot so you will have a mound. So the mound really doesn't serve any purpose at all. The only way not to have a mound is to remove the excess soil from the grave site.
a casket? a grave? the morgue? the trunk? insert yo' momma joke?