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- I'm Victor M. Sweeney, licensed funeral director,

and I'm here today to answer questions from Twitter.

@DZ1B21, "Why are the different shapes of caskets?"

when we're talking about a receptacle to bury a dead body,

you're going to see what's called a coffin.

So a coffin is what we might call anthropoid shaped,

wider at the shoulders, and then narrow down at the feet.

Other countries around the world tend to use coffins,

So when you hear someone talk about grandma's in the coffin,

odds are good, she's in a rectangular casket.

@Lamia233, "Can you spread ashes anywhere,

or are there legal restrictions on that?"

Typically, a state does not really have a vested interest

on what you do with human cremated remains.

So you could scatter them essentially anywhere you like.

In my state, a family has visitation rights

So if you scatter grandma in the bed of her garden,

You can also do other things with cremated remains.

I've heard that you can press them into records.

There are all sorts of things that you can do with

cremated remains because they are simply,

pulverized bone dust, and they're inert carbons.

Everything that is organic in them is gone.

but you can do with them mostly whatever you wish.

"Are funeral pyres and Viking funerals a thing anymore?"

There is one place, Creststone in Colorado,

but you have to live in a very specific locale.

A funeral pyre as we're thinking of it here,

is usually a large pile of wood or other flammable material

As far as Viking funerals, this is kind of a misnomer.

You're probably thinking of putting your loved one in a boat

with their hands on the pommel of their sword,

shooting flaming arrows at it until it goes up in flames.

Viking funerals actually weren't like that.

They were buried with their sword in boats

but the boat was dragged on land and buried intact.

in a casket at funerals and post it on social media?

the right to take a picture of the deceased

So they can either allow it or disallow it.

But I agree, don't put it on social media,

Next up, we have a question from @Stancomb_Wills.

"Who gets to decide who gets invited to my funeral?"

Fun fact, you do not need an invitation to attend a funeral.

back at one of the funeral homes I worked with.

and I am certain she didn't know that many people.

She came for those sweet, sweet scallop potatoes and ham.

"How come cemeteries never run outta space?"

Sometimes cemeteries do run out of space.

sometimes it's the case where families will actually

bury their loved ones on top of existing graves.

In certain other countries and in other parts of the world,

your grave space is not your mom's or dad's forever,

but for a period of years, after which your rent expires,

they dig up the dead and they put them elsewhere

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