Funeral Service Merchandising- Casket Sizes Flashcards

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  • Length 78”
  • Width 23”
  • Height 16” to 24”
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Average Adult Metal Interior Casket Size

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  • Length 75”
  • Width 22”
  • Height 16” to 22”
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Average Adult Wooden Interior Casket Size

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  • Length 84”
  • Width 29”
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Average Adult Wooden or Metal Casket Exterior Size

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This is how the deceased should be measured for casket size.

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Elbow to Elbow

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  • 1976-1980- 47%
  • 1988-1994- 56%
  • 1999-2000- 64%
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People Considered Overweight or Obese in America

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The arranging funeral director should always do his or her best to ascertain the approximate size of the deceased _____ the family makes a casket selection.

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Before

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Measures 86 inches long by 30 inches wide.

  • An oversize casket may require the use of an oversized outer burial container
  • May need to utilize more than one standard grave space.
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Standard Interior Dimensions of a Burial Container

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Oversize dimensions have increased incrementally by 2 Inches in Width, 3 Inches in Length. Each “step” increase in size represented by an X.

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X Formula

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Fewer provide oversize caskets that specifically follow any particular X formula. Instead, they simply manufacture a variety of oversize units designed to accommodate the widest range of body types one can reasonable expect to encounter.

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Manufacturers Today

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A unit that measures (inside) 38 inches wide and 85 inches long (keep in mind that a twin bed mattress measures 39 inches by 75 inches).

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Double Oversize

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Althought oversized caskets use the same materials as a standard casket, the additional materials, labor, and sometimes custom work necesary to manufacture them will make them ____ ______ than the standard casket.

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More Expensive

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Represents pure tragedy, one of the greatest losses anyone can experience.

  • Range from 12” to 5’6” in length
  • Typically increase lengthwise by 6 inch increments.
  • Widths vary, determined by proportion to casket’s length.
  • Only difference between adult caskets is dimensions
  • Interiors may be reversible
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Infant or Child’s Casket

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Half couch caskets may have caps hinged in an opposing manner, and can be displayed with either “male” (light blue) or “female” (pink) interior themes.

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Reversible Interior in Children’s Caskets

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Vacuum formed or injection molded polymer plastics account for a much larger percentage of caskets produced.

  • Many of these polymer caskets are combination units.
  • Practical, study, and economical
  • Less aesthetically pleasing
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Unusual Aspect of Children’s Caskets

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Offer the advantage of serving as their own burial container, so no additional burial vault is required.

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Combination Unit

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If the funeral home does not stock what the family wants, the family should be offered the opportunity to select an appropriate casket from a catalog; most manufacturers of infants’ and children’s caskets can deliver within 24 hours.

  • Do not cause the family of a deceased child to feel any more disenfranchised because their choices were limited and they had to “settle” for what the funeral home had in stock.
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Offer The Family Options