if the U.S. flag is used to cover a casket at a funeral can the flag be lowered into the grave?
Once the family leaves, a representative from the funeral home stays with the casket as it is lowered and the grave is completely closed. This often occurs immediately after the family has left.
Another name for it is a casket. It is a box where people are put after they die. The casket is then lowered into the ground, and covered in dirt. People usually then put a grave stone on top, with the person's name engraved in it.
A (sealed / air and watertight) burial vault or an (unsealed /non-protective) grave box.
The amount to be paid depends on the coverage. Coverage can range from $5000 to $25,00 and can cover a variety of expenses, including the casket or urn, embalming fees, cremation costs, grave market, hearse services, grave digging/filling, flowers, etc. More info: http://www.netquote.com/life-insurance/understand/why-need-burial-insurance.aspx
He did have a funeral but no one knows what kind of funeral he got because the identity of Jack the ripper was never known. Wherever hes was cremated, buried in a expensive casket or left in a mass grave, we will never know.
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.
Probably for the things in the casket
I do not know this is in horribly bad taste, a dead-fall indeed. The Powerpuff Girls. NOT! But sadly for Rainbow the Clown, the Powerpuff Girls did beat him up on that show. Of course, Rainbow the Clown never died. C'mon, have a sense of humor!
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.