Deciding where a body will rest for eternity may never be an easy task.. There are few people who make their predictions in life for the final moment, the one that we are all assured of; Many others must decide in the pain of having lost a loved one.
Those in charge of offering funeral services, planned or rushed, explain the content and costs of each element, each package, including the coffin, the last resting place of the body when the soul leaves it.
For more than 25 years, Héctor Alvarado’s company has been dedicated to the art of making coffins.. They began some time ago as a company dedicated to the furniture industry, however, the needs of society then required a change of direction, focusing on the production of coffins.
There was not much to change, since they already knew how to work with wood and fabric and had the necessary tools to do so, although, as an industrial engineer, he gradually specialized the machines that were required for certain details, such as give the curvature to the vault of the coffin, considering that the wood with which they are manufactured comes from flat sheetsor those necessary to polish the edges and final details.
“If there is one thing we are sure of, it is precisely death, and someone has to be in charge of making the coffins for that final rest; It is not simply a piece of furniture, it is the place where a person’s body will rest for eternity,” said Héctor.
For more than 25 years, Héctor Alvarado’s company has been dedicated to the art of making coffins. THE INFORMATOR / H. Figueroa
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The factory, located in the municipality of Tlaquepaque, makes an average of 250 coffins per month that are distributed to groups and funeral homes throughout the country.from the smallest to the largest, and although each house offers the coffins at a different cost depending on the packages contracted by each person, Héctor knows the prices well, since he knows what it costs to carve this art.
“There is a very wide range of prices. Speaking, for example, of the most economical line, we can say that there are coffins that can go The cheapest one starts at three thousand pesos, and the most expensive one I make can reach 30 thousand pesos. It all depends on the type of wood from which they are made, the work that each one takes, because for example, In the most expensive one we can add thin veneers of special woods, such as walnut, or marquetry inlays.”Hector said.
But the measurements also influence, because although there are coffins of standard size, Avanti can manufacture in special sizes if requiredeven having a coffin for more robust people.
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The experience acquired in these more than two decades has shown that The season when the most coffins are produced and sold begins on these dates, when the cold begins to rise.and that is when older adults, of a very advanced age, begin to die from respiratory diseases.
And due to the lack of space in the pantheons, The company has begun to increase the number of urns they manufacture, given the option of cremating the bodies to deposit them in some niche of the pantheons, churches or even so that they remain in the homes of the families.
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And in this sense, Héctor Alvarado alerted citizens about the “clandestine” sale of coffins that they have recently noticed, in which families who have purchased funeral packages with coffins later choose to cremate their relative and place them in an urn, leaving previously used drawers for sale.
He said, while it may seem like there is nothing wrong with it, he assured that becomes a health risksince most likely whoever acquires a coffin of this type will not know what the person died of, becoming a focus of infection or diseases.
“Funeral homes, for example, have the option of renting coffins for those who decide to watch their family member and then cremate them, but they use special cartridges that are subsequently discarded, so there is special care. But Buying coffins to reuse them will always be a risk”, he noted.
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A curious fact, according to what was related to Héctor, is that The demand for pet urns has also increasedwhich have become a special part of many families, and for which veterinarians and other companies have begun to offer funeral packages even for small pets.
“This novelty is also beginning to gain more popularity. It is already seen with different manufacturers that, in addition to urns for human beings, the demand for urns for pets and specialized crematoriums for cremating pets is beginning to grow,” he said.
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