Thinking of being buried in your car?
The good news is, there seems to be little in the way of state regulations that would prohibit it. State officials and funeral directors said most burial rules are set at the local level and thus vary from city to city or county to county.
The bad news is, that’s not necessarily who you need to ask for permission.
“You’re going to have to find a cemetery that will permit you to do that,” said Randall L. Earl, a Downstate funeral director for 40 years and a member of the National Funeral Directors Association executive board.
He said that in addition to the obvious environmental issues and the need to purchase multiple plots to accommodate a car, most cemeteries bury caskets in an outer container. A typical midsize car is roughly 15 feet long and 6 feet wide, and though there is no standard size for caskets, most are less than half those dimensions.
“It’s going to be very difficult to find anything to place a car in. I would think that it could be arranged. Yes, it would be difficult, yes, but it could be done,” he said.
