Posted on 08/24/2010 11:45:06 AM PDT by MichCapCon
Under Louisiana law, it is a crime for anyone but a licensed funeral director to sell "funeral merchandise," which includes caskets. To sell caskets legally, the monks of Saint Joseph Abbey would have to abandon their calling for one full year to apprentice at a licensed funeral home, learn unnecessary skills and take a funeral industry test. They would also have to convert their monastery into a "funeral establishment" by, among other things, installing equipment for embalming human remains.
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Wasn’t Ruth Bell Graham buried in a casket made by an Angola prisoner? I don’t expect that they are licensed.
So don’t sell caskets. Sell furniture grade boxes with brass handles. Put a label on them that says “Do not use as a casket in the state of Louisiana.”
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