Close to Home by John McPherson for September 24, 2018

Must have used balsa wood for the bottom !

Never mind the casket, who dressed him?

Little yellow alien is back today.

Uncle Cal used to tease Gavin unmercifully. It’s just Gavin’s way of getting the last laugh on him. Drop the casket on him and shovel the dirt in anyway — the worms won’t care.

A tisket, a tasket,

A cheap wood casket

I put my uncle in the coffin

And the bottom fell out of it

Bums away!

They require a concrete coffin liner here to protect the bodies from the embalming fluid in the soil. It wasn’t a complete waste of a pair of pants and shoes.

My Dad was at a funeral back in the 60’s where this actually happened. The manufacturer was building the coffins “on the cheap.” To make matters worse, the padding was wadded up newspaper – which all fell out along with the deceased.

And here they thought this new casket model would be ground breaking!

Wait! That’s NOT Uncle Cal!

this just in.

Uncle Cal doesn’t care

Nothing in law that says your cast needs to be $10k or more. And in most cases you can be buried any where as long as you (the dead) don’t affect clean ground water. I hope I have a pine box or just put in the ground. However, my wife is saying no matter what I want I will be cremated.

At least the placement is good – he’s falling into the hole…

A variation of burial at sea.

Then Cal should’ve made it himself before he croaked.

He doesn’t look very dead!!!

To paraphrase Carl Spackler: “He’s in the hole! He’s in the hole!”

Boy, that preacher cries at the drop of a corpse….