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I believe most countries have a minimum depth that bodies have to be buried at. That is going to be hard to achieve with these kind of coffins.

• bmelton 17y ago
  I don't know why there couldn't be 'filler' space at the top put there just to achieve the depth requirements.
  • philk 17y ago
    Well, assuming the minimum depth is even as low as three feet, the deceased is up to six feet tall and there's maybe a foot of additional space (thickness of coffin, the pointy drill bit, satin pillows, etc.) you're now looking at a ten foot long coffin. This seems to be a bit unwieldy at best, particularly when you've got to stand it up to bore into the ground.
    • electromagnetic 17y ago
      You can have a funeral in winter before the frost line raises, however it'll destroy this. Frost doesn't stop a backhoe, I'd bet a lot of money it would stop this because the torque required to break and shift frozen soil is immense, especially considering it has to displace its entire volume around the coffin.
    • bmelton 17y ago
      Well, to be fair, the entire idea is really quite stupid (in my opinion.) It's novel, to be sure, but realistically, at least in most of the US, it would just be easier to use a boring drill to make the hole, and then lower a regular (or even torpedo-shaped) coffin into it.
• Daniel_Newby 17y ago
  It's just a mausoleum with a really deep foundation.