Quote Originally Posted by Irving View Post
I guess I should have specified that embalming and the funeral industry is only as old as the Civil War, not burial.
Of course. there are cemetery's in the NYC area. That have families in the ground since, well it had people. IIRC , one of the cemetery's in Queens, at some point pulled all the graves. Redug the area, so they could stack the caskets, vertically. Giving more room for the next seasons catch