How about the Chevra Kadish, a highly respected society within the hebrew community, which ritually bathes, anoints, enshrouds, casketing in a metal-free wooden box with direct burial. As with nurse-midwife, physician’s assistant, home hospice, paralegals, a whole bevvy of adjunct paraprofessionals now fulfill useful functions within an economy which embraces affordable options. A burial committee withing a church, fraternal, veteran, or social org. could easily be brought up to speed on the esoteric nuances of caring for their own dead. The notion that “someone with knowledge” is limited to a FD exhibits abounding contempt for the right of the consumer to control their own property
