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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’ve always felt uncomfortable with open casket wakes. However, only 50 years ago, my family kept their dead at home until it was time for the funeral Mass. The women washed the body and sewed it into the shroud. The men built a plain pine casket. Family and friends filed through the parlor to say goodbye and then into the yard for refreshment. I imagine the house smelled like death and flowers. Funerals were the next day, maybe the day after in winter only. If you lived far away, you sent a telegram. [/quote] You think people were buried the next day in winter in olden times? Not where the ground freezes, nope. They weren’t buried until the ground thawed in spring. Stored in a vault or mortuary freezer until then.[/quote]
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