The reason caskets are now referred to as sealed instead of protected like in the past is due to what is known as Grandpa soup. Street name “cold menudo”.
In essence, people have this strange belief that when we put someone into the ground they’re gonna stay looking like that until the second coming of Jesus.
This isn’t the case.
In our defense, we do put fluids into a body when we embalm, but formaldehyde is dehydrating, considering decomposition is caused by the break down of water into it’s more base parts. We put a hold on the breakdown, but it doesn’t last forever.
So when someone needed to exhume Gramps, they opened the casket and was greated by the worst cold soup that has ever existed. Picture leaving chicken noodle in the fridge. The fats float to the surface and harden due to the temperature. You can poke a crack in it. It’s gross.
Anyway, the casket is full of Grandpa soup and these people just mcfucking lose it. Grandpa was placed into a “protected” casket! He shouldn’t be attempting to create the bath bomb from hell!!
Well, no outside fluids got in. That’s 100% pure Grandpa!
So the family sued because the emotional damages caused by menudo a la papa was upsetting. Honestly, understandable. I’d sue my own eyeballs for witnessing that.
When that particular unpleasantness was taken care of, we decided it was in everyone’s best interest to change the wording from “protected” to “sealed” so as to avoid any further misrepresentations in the public eye.
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