Interesting Burial Facts

[Tim Smith]

And keep bringing up carbon footprints and Phil will have an X on this thread too.

Don't look at me. JD started it. But I did like his post.

[taxidermist]

How many family members go to visit the graves of their dead great-great-great-great-great-great grandparents whose rotted remains are somewhere under some old tombstone that is no longer even legible?

We use to go. but not anymore its a thing of the past.

When my Paternal Grandmother passed, she wanted to be buried by here mom and dad. well the backhoe guy ripped the end out of Great Grandads coffin. He was buried in the early 1950's He looked like the Crypt Keeper.

With the bedrock in the cemetery both are all of two feet under the grass.

Formaldehyde is a naturally occurring substance in the environment made of carbon, hydrogen and oxygen. Methanal too.

it is produced industrially by the catalytic oxidation of methanol. The most common catalysts are silver metal or a mixture of an iron and molybdenum or vanadium oxides.