Sometimes Mausoleums Leak. Here’s an explanation why.

Mausoleums rarely leak.  There’s a number of safe-guards that keep leakage from spilling out.  But, every once in a while this happens:

(Amanda Shavers-Davis/The Cullman Times)

There’s a number of reasons why mausoleums could leak.  Here are two of the more prevalent reasons.

One. Casket-failure.

Casket-failure is when the dead begin to putrefy, and the liquid (usually mixed with corrosive embalming fluid) emits from their bodies, the casket rusts out from the inside, causing the liquid to run out from the mausoleum.

Two.  The “exploding casket”

When sealed caskets with no ventilation experience an accumulation of gases emitted from the decomposing body the buildup of those gases sometimes becomes so intense and pressurized that the casket belches gases and liquids.  The casket doesn’t explode like a balloon; but it can — in some circumstances — expel parts of its contents.  There *should* be some type of liner that catches the casket belches … but sometimes (as in the above example) there isn’t a liner.