They buried my aunt yesterday

She died in December but this cemetery doesn't bury people in the winter, so they waited until the ground thawed.

I found out something very interesting from speaking to the funeral director at the burial. They do not store "winter" bodies in a freezer. Or a refrigerator. They just put them in the basement of the funeral home. And yes, if you purchase a non-sealing casket (as we did for her) you will be able to detect the smell of decomposing flesh. The funeral home has a filtered ventilation system to take care of the odors in the basement.

I told him that I couldn't smell anything and he said that was because they had arrived over an hour ahead of time so the smells had dissipated. Hmmmm.