Thomas wrote: ” but all those so-called ”protective,sealed” caskets are useless money traps.” Absolutely agreed. But: ” I think we should bury our deceased in coffins due to sanitary reasons (without a coffin or container, you can still smell the stench of rotting flesh buried underground through soil cracks when it’s hot in summer)” That is absolutely untrue and I wonder who told you that. That simply does not happen. Coffins wouldn’t stop that anyway as many of them break apart very soon after burial.