Re: Whatcha thinking about now? (v2)
If you ever want a bit of gravedirt, let me know, I can probably get my hands on some for the cost of shipping.
There are some cultures that only bury their dead long enough for them to decompose, then use the bones. And one culture, somewhere, brings their preserved dead out of their coffins once a year, feeds them, changes their clothes, washes them, etc. So, you could probably source a small supply from things like that. More than likely someone in China is making a bunch of nails, soaking them, tossing them in dirt, etc to make them look used, and shipping them here with the label of coffin nails... if the nails could realistically be used for coffins, then there isn't really anything wrong with that.
But caskets are rarely actually closed with nails in the modern world anymore. Typically, there's a sealing gasket that you close with a special screwdriver thing (I should know the name but it isn't coming to mind). The exceptions I can think of are for Jewish and Islamic burials, and they don't allow any metal, so they wouldn't use nails anyway...
Originally posted by Corvus
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There are some cultures that only bury their dead long enough for them to decompose, then use the bones. And one culture, somewhere, brings their preserved dead out of their coffins once a year, feeds them, changes their clothes, washes them, etc. So, you could probably source a small supply from things like that. More than likely someone in China is making a bunch of nails, soaking them, tossing them in dirt, etc to make them look used, and shipping them here with the label of coffin nails... if the nails could realistically be used for coffins, then there isn't really anything wrong with that.
But caskets are rarely actually closed with nails in the modern world anymore. Typically, there's a sealing gasket that you close with a special screwdriver thing (I should know the name but it isn't coming to mind). The exceptions I can think of are for Jewish and Islamic burials, and they don't allow any metal, so they wouldn't use nails anyway...
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