Instrucciones
Tabla de carrocería/ entierro de féretro
Cementerio de conservación Larkspur
Taylor Hollow, Nashville, Tennessee
Encuentre una lámina de madera contrachapada de 2 pies de ancho (1/2" de espesor para personas livianas, 3/4" de espesor para personas pesadas) de madera contrachapada CDX (debe lijarse) o madera contrachapada ACX (no es necesario lijar).
Una lámina de 4 pies de ancho de una tienda de mejoras para el hogar costará alrededor de $60. Pueden cortarlo por la mitad si no tienes una sierra de mesa.
Dibuje los asideros aproximadamente a 1 1/2" del borde. Taladre un agujero en la línea de cada uno (para que pueda introducir la sierra de sable en el orificio). Corte los óvalos de asideros.
Consigue una sábana o manta tamaño king para envolver la tabla y el cuerpo. En la foto de arriba, el cuerpo y la tabla están envueltos por separado. Pero si no desea que la forma del cuerpo sea visible, coloque la tabla sobre la sábana o la manta y luego el cuerpo encima de la tabla y luego envuélvala.
Colocar el féretro envuelto en un juego de caballetes puede facilitar el envolver tiras de láminas en 5 puntos a lo largo del cuerpo (cabeza, pecho, cintura, piernas y pies).
Aquí hay una guía para levantar, transportar y bajar un ataúd o una tabla para cadáveres para el entierro. Obtenga una cuerda o correas de aproximadamente 1/2 " para bajar el féretro a la tumba.
Para una tumba de 6 pies de profundidad, necesita aproximadamente tres tramos de correa o cuerda de 20 pies (o seis tramos de 10 pies, que se dejan en la tumba porque están atados a las manijas). Manilla Rope es biodegradable si debe dejarse en el suelo.
Traiga dos o tres tablas pesadas para atravesar la tumba para que pueda colocar el féretro sobre la tumba.
Cementerio de conservación Heartwood Preserve, Trinity, FL
Cementerio de conservación Prairie Creek, Gainesville, FL
Foto cortesía de Melissa Hill
Instruction for lifting, carrying and lowering caskets or body boards for burial.
If lowering a bier into the grave: Use approx 1/2" thick rope, or straps.
For a 6 ft deep grave you need approx three 20 ft lengths of strap or rope (or six 10 ft lengths -which are left in the grave because they are tied to the handles). Manilla Rope is biodegradable.
Bring three heavy boards to traverse the grave if you want the bier to rest over the grave before lowering. You would need another person to pull these out as the pall bearers lift before lowering.
https://www.thenaturalfuneral.com/shrouds/
This company in Colorado provides products like shrouds with heavy duty handles for use in lowering the deceased. AND they offer body composting (Natural Organic Reduction -legal in Colorado and Oregon etc), alkaline hydrolysis (water cremation). and much more.
7 Ponds interview with an expert in Texas:
If a family wants to take their loved one’s body from a hospital or care home, what do they need to know?
Most hospitals, nursing homes and other systems have a policy that when their customer dies, the family has to call a funeral home to pick up the body. When a family refuses, there’s immediate push-back.
That policy is actually against the law. First, they’re forcing the family into a contract with a funeral home. So it’s a contract under duress, which is illegal anywhere in this country. And then the second issue is that it’s the family’s responsibility to dispose of the body how they see fit, so the corporate policy goes against that. Lawyers understand when it’s stated to them that way, and will tell the hospital, “Let them have the body,” because they don’t want any trouble. When I’ve coached people, we’ve never lost that fight.
In Texas — I don’t know about other states — it’s illegal to hold a dead body hostage for any reason. So if a funeral home has the body and the family goes down there and they don’t have any money to pay for anything, the funeral home can’t say, “We’re just going to keep old dead Fred here until you come up with the money and it’s going to cost you a hundred dollars a day for refrigeration.” That’s holding a body hostage.
If the family’s going to pick up the body, how many people should they bring? Do they need any special equipment?
It’s not the hospital’s job to have a body board or anything like that, because they’re accustomed to the funeral home coming in with the equipment. The body will come out on a gurney in a slip sheet. I don’t know how many dead bodies you’ve handled, but they’re pretty difficult. So the family just needs a body board — they could get a body bag, which is still not rigid, but a lot of them have handles. You just need something to slip under there and have some handles on it, pick it up and put it in the minivan. Plywood’s really expensive nowadays, but maybe an ironing board or whatever works. And four people for 100 pounds would be about right.
What kind of vehicle should someone use — can they just rent a van?
It’s just hauling freight. You just measure whatever container you’ve got and measure the van or pickup to see if it’ll fit. With most any minivan, they’ll pull out the seats — the middle and the last row. That’s how most bodies are transported by funeral homes. And because the box lays low on the floor, you can’t see it through the windows. A Chevrolet Tahoe will fit if you just fold down both rows of seats — that’s what we did with my dad. Pickup trucks are easy to load, typically long enough, but the body’s out in the sunshine and the rain. But a good, heavy tarp, and it’s all right.