Re: Casket Question

In article <p62dnRvSILJBa73VnZ2dnUVZ_gadnZ2d@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
 "Steven L." <sdlitvin@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> Priscilla H. Ballou wrote:
> > In article <IN6dnQ2snMbQAb3VnZ2dnUVZ_gydnZ2d@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
> >  "Steven L." <sdlitvin@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> > 
> >> Tim wrote:
> >>> I'm new to this newsgroup and so I have a question.
> >>> Anyone have any idea why the casket is so small? Is that just a 
> >>> production error, am I imagining things or is there a midget in it?
> >> The casket isn't that small.  It's big enough to contain a full-sized

> >> human who is shoe-horned into it.
> >>
> >> What you're probably used to seeing, is one of those very fancy
caskets 
> >> with oak sides and lots of padding inside, which necessarily take up 
> >> more room.  This box is plain, indicating that nobody was willing to
pay 
> >> for anything fancier.
> > 
> > That's not the only reason some people opt for plain caskets.  For
some 
> > it's a statement about values.  
> 
> But in this case, combined with the nondescript and empty funeral parlor

> in a run-down section of town, I think it's safe to say that whoever 
> died, died unloved and uncared for.

I was responding solely to the statement that a plain box indicates 
unwillingness to pay for anything fancier.  My point was that that is 
not necessarily accurate.

Priscilla