After Seeing How the Amish Bury Their Dead, I Can't Unsee It

What happens when an Amish person dies? No funeral home. No steel casket. No cosmetic restoration. No rented chapel. The family washes the body themselves. A neighbor builds the coffin from pine. Four friends dig the grave by hand. The community cooks dinner for 500 people. And the whole thing costs about $3,600. In this documentary, we walk through every stage of Amish death and burial practices, from the moment someone passes to the communal meal that follows the funeral. We cover the handmade coffins, the two-day home viewings, the funeral services with no eulogies, the hand-dug graves that all face east, and the mutual aid system that replaces insurance entirely.