re: Overnight caskets. Any experiences?

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Our family has bought several simple wooden caskets from St. Joseph’s Abby. Support the monks. Don’t pay the thieving funeral home business.

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I bought (near) identical caskets from them in Fall 2008 and early 2017, because that's what my parents wanted. I believe it was the monastic style. The price almost doubled in less than 8-1/2 years.

Maybe they were trying to recoup legal fees spent fight Big Funeral, maybe it was the 2016 flood damage to their shop, maybe it was because of their increased popularity. I don't know. But now, in addition to the shysters at the funeral home, you've got monks taking advantage of you too.

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Our family has bought several simple wooden caskets from St. Joseph’s Abbey. Support the monks. Don’t pay the thieving funeral home business.

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My grandfather helped the monks start that program and taught some of them how to make the caskets. They also do nice wooden boxes for ashes.