Donald Scruggs from Chino, CA was granted US Patent 7,631,404 on December 15, 2009 for an “easy” screw-type burial container.
The basic idea is this: the dearly departed is placed into a giant, hollowed out screw and screwed vertically into the ground, thereby eliminating the need for a backhoe as well as taking up less ground space and allowing for more burials per square meter in the cemetery. As seen in Fig. 27, one can even opt for an underwater interment with a little fish or a duck on top of the container. The goal of the invention is to reduce labor costs associated with a burial as well as allowing for burials in areas in of a cemetery that were previously not usable. I wonder if this could be a boon for grave robbers. Seems to me that anything that can be screwed can be unscrewed fairly easily. Wait, do grave robbers even exist anymore?
What do you think? Would you be okay with you or a loved one being buried in a giant screw?
Screw the dead.
sooo, did he also invent a gigantic screwdriver to get the dead body screw into the ground?