You can still have the deceased brought to your church or home after the embalming. Windwalker <windwalker@fastmail.fm> wrote:Still done in some parts. Its was highly done up until the 50,s. A person would pass and the family would wash and dress the person in their best clothes.And lay them out in the parlor. Two Quarters or Silver Dollars were placed on the eyes. Mouth was filled full of cotton batting or quilt backing. The windows were opened to help cool the room. Most times the person was buried as soon as possible. Unless the ground was froze and sometime they would wait till spring. People would sit up with the decease. No "eats" would be done in the same room that was reserved till after the burying. The grave would be handdug and the service concluded. The practice was mostly stopped due to embalming rules and crypt laws. Although most were buried in wood coffins. The practice has changed in more recent times from that of several years ago, due to laws. --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business $15K Web Design Giveaway - Enter today