Some Reasons Why an Open Casket Funeral Is a Good Idea:

• A final, physical moment helps provide a feeling of closure with the cadaver.

• Talking to a dead person can help prepare teenagers for a future "marraige experience."

• Religious services are more affecting if there's a body to physically point to on key talking points.

• Deep sobbing is good for your bowels.

• "You stop complaining and open that casket! There are people throwing their dead into mass pits in other parts of the world!"

• If a person falls in the ground and no one's there to see it--did that person really die? Hard to say, let's play it safe.

• Alleviates detachment!