Screw-in Coffin Saves Space, Reduces Labor Costs

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The Bible says "ashes to ashes and dust to dust" but that doesn't stop many people from wanting a permanent, tightly sealed container for their loved one's remains. But burying people horizontally is an extravagant use of real estate, and digging those holes is a lot of work. Inventor Donald Scruggs to the rescue; he would have us spinning in our graves with Patent 2007/005958, "A series of burial containers having means by which they can be pressed, agitated, screwed and or self bored into a receiving material, provide low cost interment methods w...Read the full story on TreeHugger