Selects: How Coffins Work
Stuff You Should Know
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4.5 • 82.7K Ratings
🗓️ 15 April 2023
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Sure, you've probably laid in one at the store or a funeral home, but how much do you know about receptacles used to bury the dead? We'll bet you'll learn plenty - like the difference between a coffin and a casket - in this classic episode.
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| 0:00.0 | America loves its founding fathers, but that's a tough act to follow as a founding son. |
| 0:05.7 | I'm Bob Crawford. Join me, Patrick Warburton, and Nick Offerman, as we bring the sixth |
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| 1:27.9 | Welcome to Stuff You Should Know, a production of I Heart Radio. |
| 1:57.9 | Hey and welcome to the podcast on Josh Clark, there's Charles W. Chuck Bryant, and this is Stuff You Should Know, |
| 2:07.9 | the podcast. That's right. This is part of our ongoing Death Suite, which is sweet. |
| 2:13.9 | Yeah, we've covered Death a lot, because death is multifaceted. |
| 2:17.9 | Sure. You know, and this reminded me of the, I guess we covered Green Barrel, not in its own podcast, |
| 2:25.9 | but in different ways to do the Dead Bonnie. That's what I thought it was in two, but I'm surprised we didn't do a podcast dedicated to that. |
| 2:33.9 | Maybe we should. Yeah, I looked up because I'm interested in that for myself, and there are some lovely places right outside Atlanta. |
| 2:41.9 | To be buried greenly, where you can just be wrapped in a shroud and buried in the field. |
| 2:45.9 | Which? Ripped to death by a coyotes. Left in the field? They don't leave you in a field. |
| 2:51.9 | Yeah, I'm going to shallow graves for the coyotes to come get you. |
| 2:55.9 | No, they said they don't have a problem with that, but I'm not one of those people that cares about that. |
| 3:01.9 | Yeah, like what happens to your body? |
| 3:03.9 | Like I would do a sky burial. That wouldn't bother me for vultures to pick me apart. |
| 3:07.9 | Yeah, use the body if it would feed an animal great. Why not donate it to science? |
| 3:12.9 | Yeah, maybe I'll do that. I'm not precious about that my body after death. I'm not precious about my body in life. |
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