After 10 Years in a Coffin, This Is What's Left of Your Body — A Funeral Director Explains

What's left of a body after 10 years in a coffin? Families ask me this at the graveside, often years after the funeral. After 38 years as a funeral director in southern Ohio, I give you the honest answer, gently and plainly. In this video, I walk through what happens from the day the lid closes to ten years down: the casket maker's own patent describing the gasket as a one-way valve, what embalming really does, why wet ground can change everything, what a forensic anthropologist at Texas State found, what Lee Harvey Oswald's grave showed almost 18 years later, and why Abraham Lincoln was still recognisable after 36. Most importantly, I explain your rights under the FTC Funeral Rule, which forbids claims that a casket or embalming preserves a body long-term, and what to ask before you pay for a sealer or a vault. #FuneralDirector #FuneralPlanning #Burial #Embalming