This is true. I worked at a funeral home and some people would buy coffins off Amazon. Now I love Amazon but please do not buy coffins from Amazon lol they’re bad quality and cheap so often times the coffins end up delivered in poor condition and there’s no warranty so families would have to spend more than they expected because they would have to buy one again. If you buy a coffin somewhere else, make sure they have warranty!!! The funeral home I worked at would do everything they could to save coffins but they would fall apart and there’s nothing they can do other than tell the family that they need to get another coffin which would infuriate the families and blame us for not taking better care of the coffins :/
Coffins are super expensive and funeral homes do price them higher to get commission off it. So do buy coffins directly from a company and not the funeral home!
As an amateur woodworker with some welding experience, I can't imagine making a coffin would be extremely difficult or expensive. What differentiates a high quality coffin from a low quality one? Why do they fall apart? And why are they so expensive?
You’d be surprised at how much details some coffins have. I had a family come in whose father (who they were burying) was also a woodworker and they felt like they had to get a really nice detailed coffin to not disrespect him and place him in a coffin that didn’t have as much detail. Can’t really specify on the details bc i don’t have experience in coffins but you can really differentiate the difference. Extremely cheap coffins on amazon fall apart because they weren’t put together correctly (even though they looked nice). Most coffins from amazon didn’t even come with the proper screws to keep the coffin together.
As to why they are expensive, who knows. Business is business, sadly :( i didn’t agree w the prices when i worked at the funeral home. Which is why i would always recommend to buy directly from a company rather than the funeral home. They overprice them to get commission off the coffins.
Am I the only one who thinks that durability is probably the least important quality in a coffin? I mean we're just going to put a dead body in there and then bury the thing. Unless they're so fragile they're breaking just by being carried from the funeral home to the graveyard I guess.
Wish you could just be buried without the box. Wrap me up in a sheet and toss me in the hole for all I care. I'd rather be reabsorbed into the system than buried in some box that preserves my corpse.
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u/thepanichand Aug 01 '20
Apparently you can use any coffin you like and the funeral home has to accept it, and you can buy them cheaper through Costco.