Apparatus facilitating burial in the vertical position

Claim 1

A burial structure comprising: a. a plurality of vertically oriented burial bores; b. a plurality of respective casings disposed in respective bores, said casing being adapted to receive a plurality of vertically oriented corpse containers and being sealingly connected with a bottom end and sealed against influx of water; c. removable top lids connected with the top of respective said casings for allowing access to the interior of said casing within said bore; d. individual supports disposed at a plurality of respective levels within respective said casings for supporting said corpse containers individually within each said casing; and e. a plurality of corpse containers having corpses therewithin and disposed in vertical orientations within respective said casings within respective said bores on respective said individual supports; said corpse containers including foamed plastic loosely conformably fitting both front and back of said corpse therewithin for supporting said corpse in a vertical position; said corpse containers comprising a high density plastic skin that is unitary with a foamed plastic interior; said high density skin and said foamed plastic interior being sealable about a corpse before being disposed vertically in said casing within said bore; said foamed plastic traversing both in front of and in back of said corpse and extending to meet and mate with the foamed plastic in the opposite half when said corpse container is closed about said corpse such that sealant can be disposed on the mating surfaces of said foamed plastic, as well as said high density skin, to seal said corpse container.