Then let's go to the funeral home. My son was beaten so badly it was unbelievable. We had to close the casket. What I want to know is why? How could anyone do that for $20? Just $20.

The family sat at the funeral home for three days expecting Mom to show up, ... When they threw dirt on the casket, they knew she was dead.

How could you go about choosing something that would hold the half of your heart you had to bury?

I went to her funeral and they had her and her baby in the casket together. That baby didn't have a chance to live or be loved.

I'd find a way to do it - unless I'm in a casket.

It wasn’t one event, but a series of events followed by years of research adjudicated by panels of experts and committees of laypeople until a decision was finally made: we’ve been going about handling dead people all wrong.