The Grave Decision
by Mumwrap
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Storycodes: MF; MMF/f; prepare; bodybag; transport; hearse; mortuary; slab; makeup; catheter; drawer; storage; casket; dress; chapel; service; public; burial; entomb; gravestone; dream; recovery;
Chapter 1: The Grave Request
The topic came up in conversation, late one night after we had finished watching an old horror movie, the subject of being buried alive. Brandi told me that if I didn't laugh at her, she would tell me her secret fantasy. I agreed not to laugh or make fun of her, so she told me her darkest desire. After she told me what she had dreamed of for so long. I finally said "So you really want to be buried alive, forever"?
"No, Jim not forever, just a few hours, or maybe overnight" Brandi said with a pout on her face.
"Ok don't get pissed off. I knew you had a wild side, but I had no idea you were this kinky, not that it's bad thing" I said with a laugh.
Brandi said "I wish I had not told you now".
"Why" I said
"Because now you're making fun of me" Brandi said with a sad face.
I said "No I am not, I like your fantasy".
Brandi lit up with a big smile, she was a beautiful woman about 28 years old, 5 foot 4 inches tall, long dark black hair, and a body to die for (no pun intended). She was a nurse at the local hospital. We met a party three years ago and have been together ever since. We had played around with bondage but I never dreamed she had these kind of desires, and I was fascinated by the thought of it.
I asked Brandi "So if you want to be buried, I can dig a hole in the backyard and put a breathing tube in your mouth and cover you with dirt and leave you as long as you want me too" I said with a devilish smile.
Brandi smiled and said "I don't think so, I want the whole experience, the funeral, casket, burial, and of course to be exhumed from the grave". "Will you help me Jim" Brandi said with a very sweet voice.
I looked into those dark sexy eyes and I could deny her nothing. I said "Ok, but it's got to be done safely". She agreed.
Brandi asked me if I still kept in touch with my old friend that I grew up with?
I asked "Do you mean Rich, I thought you would be asking about him sooner or later".
"Well Jim, you told me that you two played as kids in his Grandfather's Funeral Home and graveyard. Rich now owns it and operates it, so I thought maybe he can help us with my fantasy" Brandi said with a very sexy look in her eyes.
I knew I was getting wrapped around her little finger, but I didn't care I loved her and would do anything for her.
"We will go see Rich this week-end and talk to him about your burial request", I said with a smile.
Brandi laughed and gave me a sexy smile, and said "I really do want him to help us, make my funeral arrangements".
I called my old friend Rich and asked if we could drive out on Saturday and talk to him about an important matter. He said yes, but asked if I was okay. I told him I was good, but I had some things to ask him and I want to do it in person.
On Saturday Brandi and I drove the 3 hours to Rich's Funeral Home. It was a nice drive into the country rolling hills, green trees, small farms and little towns. I knew the way well for when I was a boy I would come out here for the week-end with Rich and his parents. Rich's Grandfather was a very kind and gentle man. I think we drove him a little crazy when we were here, trying to keep us out trouble, and not mess up his business. But he would always invite us back.
We pulled into the driveway for the Funeral Home and cemetery. The main building which was the Funeral home set back from the road some ways and surrounded by the graveyard. The buildings and grounds looked and felt very gothic, Brandi was enchanted with it all.
Brandi was all smiles and said "This is the perfect place, Rich must let me have my burial here".
I said "Well we will ask, but this is his business and he may not want to do something like this that could get him bad press if it was made public."
Brandi said with a sad frown "I know, but he just got to help us"
We parked the car and walked up the stairs into the vestibule of the funeral home. It was just as I remembered it, from time playing here as a child with my friend Rich. Brandi was amazed she just walked around the lobby and stared at all the walls, paintings, and statues.
Just then my old friend Rich walked in the lobby and said "Welcome to the Necropolis" He dressed as you would think an undertaker would, sharp black suit, tie and white shirt.
We shook hands and I introduced Brandi to Rich. Rich asked Brandi if she would like the tour of the funeral home, and she eagerly agreed. We took off for tour.
We walked down the hall, and as we did Rich told us of how his Great- Grandfather had built this funeral home in the 1890's and that it has been in the family ever since. He show us the main salon with all the pews lined up facing the front to the room and the Victorian casket bier. The bier looks like a large coffee table or an altar and it's used to display the casket for visitation and the funeral service.
Brandi told Rich that she wanted to see the embalming room and the body storage areas.
Rich smile and laughed and said "I don't usually get that request but if you want to see it, I will be happy to show you!"
Brandi said "I really do!"
I could tell Brandi was already getting excited just walking around the funeral home. I could only imagine what she would be like if Rich agrees to her burial request.
Rich walked us throughout the embalming room the large white porcelain table in the middle of the room where the blood is drained and the embalming fluid was pumped in. We were shown all the tools of the trade, it was fascinating.
Brandi saw the wall that held the morgue drawers, which were used for storing the deceased. She walked up and stared, Brandi thought they looked beautiful very old and stylish. Rich told us his Grandfather had them installed in the 20's and that they still worked great. Only a little maintenance now and again. Rich pulled out one of the morgue drawer to show us what that they looked like.
Next was the casket room, they must have been 10 caskets on display there. Brandi was in awe seeing all of these wonderful caskets. It was all I could do to keep her from jumping in one. I whispered there would be Time for that after we talk to Rich about your funeral.
Brandi walked over to one of the caskets, it was bronze colored and besides the normal lid it had a glass inner lid.
Brandi said "Wow! Someone lying in this casket with the glass lid down would look like sleeping beauty!"
Rich and I, both smiled.
Rich said "Let's go to my office, set down, get a drink and then you two can tell me why you're here."
Rich lead us into his private office. It looked like a study out of a gothic mansion. Wooden book shelves full of books, huge desk, a large painting of Rich's Great-Grandmother in full Victorian dress. Brandi and I sat down in the two chairs in front of Rich's desk. Rich poured us some wine, and sat down in his chair and asked us what we needed from him.
I said that Brandi had a big favor to ask. I turned and looked at Brandi, she took a deep breath and said "Rich, I would like you to perform my funeral for me"
Rich smiled and said "I would be happy to set up your pre-needs. Are you having any health concerns?"
I thought to myself that Rich is really good at his job, so kind and concerned.
Brandi Smiled and said "No I am fine, but what I mean is I would like to have mock funeral for myself in the near future."
Rich looked a little stunned and said "So you just want a pretend funeral? Is that correct"
Brandi looking a little embarrassed she said "Yes, but I want to go through the entire process, including being interred and exhumed"
Brandi held her breath waiting for Rich to speak.
Rich looked at both of them and then asked "Is this a joke?"
Brandi said "No Rich, it's not a joke I am very serious about it and we hoped you would help."
Rich again looked at them both, and then finally said "I need to think about this a little. Stay here I need to talk to my assistant".
We said "ok"
Rich left the room and closed the door behind him. Brandi just sat there not saying a word, and looked very sad. I tried to tell here it would be ok, but she just sat there.
About ten minutes later Rich walked back in the room with a tall woman in tow. She was beautiful with thick wavy red hair, wearing a black dress, she looked a Goth chick to me.
Rich said "I would like you to meet my assistant and girlfriend Wendy. This is Jim and Brandi."
We all said hello.
Wendy looked at Brandi and said "So Rich tells me you would like to have a funeral and be buried alive."
Brandi sat there in shock, waiting for Wendy to start laughing at her.
Wendy looked at Brandi and warmly smiled and said "That is so cool, Rich and I would love to help you with your funeral."
Brandi smiled and said "Really you're not kidding me are you?
Rich said "No we are not, but there will be some ground rules. It must be done safely I do not want you becoming a real corpse, no one but us can know about it, and you will need to pay for the materials. But our time will be free, because this is going to be so much fun."
Brandi jumped up and hugged and kissed both of them. The four of us talked and planned away into the night. We ended up staying the night and after breakfast we picked out the casket for Brandi. She picked a black casket with gold handles and a blood red velvet interior.
Rich told me he would deliver it by van to my workshop so I could make the modifications to the casket for Brandi's burial and overnight stay in her grave. Being an engineer I knew what I needed to do for air, water, cameras, and other things for her interment.
Brandi and Wendy talked about what kind of burial dress she would wear, and how Wendy would do her makeup. They became very fast friends. I think that Wendy was almost as excited as Brandi was.
That afternoon we walked out into the graveyard and Rich took us out to the old part of the cemetery up on a little grassy hill. All around us there were these wonderful old tombstones. But just on the crest of the hill there was a small area fenced off area, big enough space for two or three graves. The beautiful cast iron fence was at least 120 years old, it sat on a stone foundation with a gate to get in and out. I noticed that there were no headstones in the fence off area.
We stopped and looked around it was beautiful up there all the rolling hills.
Rich said "What do think about this spot for your grave, Brandi?"
Brandi said "It's an amazing place, so peaceful! I would love to be laid to rest here."
Rich said "Great here in the fenced off plot will be your grave. "
Brandi smile and kissed me.
"This is too good to be true!" Brandi smiled warmly.
Chapter 2: Making Funeral arrangements
The next few weeks flew by there was so much work to be done. Rich had the grave dug, and he and I placed the large burial vault (a concrete outer box that keeps the dirt from crushing the casket) and ran air tubes, and other things that would be needed to keep Brandi safe and alive.
We built a large hollow tombstone for the grave and ran the air tube to it with electric fans inside to push fresh air in and one to suck old air out. When were done it looked like a real tombstone no one would be the wiser. We had picked out the day that Brandi was to be buried, so Rich had the name and dates cut in the tombstone.
Rich smiled and said "The guy who makes the tombstones asked how I knew when the person was going to die over a month away. I told him it was a Halloween joke, he just looked at me and told me it was an expensive joke."
We laughed, he had no idea. It was strange to see my lovers name inscribed in stone with the date of her birth and death. It was very unnerving. There was an inscription written at the bottom of the tombstone, it was written in Latin. It said, "Decorus Mulier Eram Seputus Victus" I ask Rich what does it means in English?
Rich said it translates to "Beautiful woman was buried living".
I said "Nice touch, Rich I like it and so will Brandi."
Rich smiled and said "Thanks, I thought it was appropriate inscription for this burial. I don't get to have much fun in my job, so I having all the fun I can with Brandi's Funeral!"
We both laughed.
We place the burial vault lid on the vault and back filled the grave and replaced the sod, the burial was still weeks off.
"So when Brandi has been interred in the grave, this is just how it will look?" I said. Rich said "yes"
"Brandi will be very pleased." I said with a smile.
"It's Strange to think a living woman, really a willing victim, will be buried here" Rich said. I said "Yes, but that's what she wants".
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Over the next few weeks I finish modifying the casket for Brandi's overnight stay in her grave. Air vents, water supply, microphone, speaker, video camera, and other equipment. Lucky for me Brandi is a short and petite woman, I was able to fit all the gear into the casket, she still has plenty of room and the Casket still looked normal.
We had a test runs in the workshop, she slept in the casket with the lid closed to make sure there would be no trouble doing it in the ground. Brandi passed with fly colors, in fact I thought she enjoyed being in the casket, it a little too much.
Brandi and Wendy picked her burial gown, a beautiful white wedding dress and veil.
Finally all was ready and Brandi was acting like a kid on Christmas eve, the funeral was just a few days off.
Chapter 3: Day of the living dead girl
Halloween fails on a Wednesday this year and that was the day Brandi picked for her funeral it was fall and the leave are turning brown, it felt like the perfect time of year for a funeral. Brandi and I took the week off work to make sure we had plenty of time, and would not have to rush.
The plan was to start Brandi's fantasy the day before her funeral. Brandi had asked Rich to go through the entire process, so Rich was going make it as real and fun as he could. Rich and Wendy would be at Jim and Brandi's house about 4:00pm. They would arrive in the hearse, to pick up her body.
That morning I woke up and saw that Brandi was sitting up in bed and staring at her burial gown hanging up in the closet.
I said "good morning"
Brandi smiled and said "I going to die today and be buried tomorrow isn't that cool!"
I laughed and said "yes"
I asked her if she got any sleep?
She smiled and said "I will have plenty of time to sleep in my grave."
I took Brandi out for a light lunch, and a long walk to get her mind off of her upcoming adventure. It didn't work. When we got home she packed her gown, slippers, underwear, and all the things she would need for the next two days, it was not much. I packed it all in my car for the drive over to the Funeral home.
I finally got Brandi to take a shower and get dressed in her nightgown and laid down in bed. That is how Rich and Brandi agreed to start the scene, her in her death bed. At 4:00pm on the nose, the big black hearse backed into our driveway and I opened the garage door and Rich backed in. I closed the door and Rich and Wendy got out, looking very much like undertakers dressed all in black, Wendy was wearing a short dress and heels, she looked amazing.
I greeted the two of them and I told them that the dearly deceased was ready in her bed.
Rich said "great let's get our gear and transport the body."
We all smiled. Rich and Wendy pulled out what they called a removal cart folded up in the back of the hearse. I had Brandi's casket sitting on a church cart open and ready to receive Brandi's body.
We all walked into Brandi and my bedroom, Wendy with the removal cart in tow. Brandi was laying there looking at us and smiling, she was very excited.
Rich said "Ok from now on you have died from a brain aneurysm. We are going to try to treat you as a real dead person as much as possible. You can watch as much as you like, but no moving and if we ask you a direct question please answer, we will mostly be checking your well being. We also will ask you to do some things for yourself to make it easier on you and us. So Brandi are you really to pass on to the other side and be prepared for your funeral and burial".
Brandi said with a big smile "yes."
Rich said "I am sorry for your lost Jim she was very beautiful and, it's always sad when the young die. Wendy I think you may want to make Brandi not look so alive with your makeup kit, so the pictures will look right."
Then Rich asked for the paperwork from her doctor about her brain aneurysm and the prognosis, so he could fill out her death certificate. It was funny Brandi had filled out all the reports on her condition and as able to get a real doctor at her hospital to sign it, Brandi always told me doctors will sign anything you put in front of them. In fact that is how she got the prescriptions for her funeral adventure.
Wendy when to work on Brandi, first she put in some scleral contact lens in Brandi's eye. They were the same color as Brandi's but there were not as bright and alive looking they looked washed out and lifeless. Next Wendy started putting some makeup on Brandi to make her look pale, she did her hands as well.
Wendy said "Well for right now she looks dead enough."
Brandi giggled.
Rich said "Well we have a lot of work to do let's get going"
Wendy went over and unfolded the removal cart and pulled a black bag out and walked over to the bed and on rolled it out next to Brandi. Wendy unzipped the body bag and laid it open. Next Rich and Wendy picked up Brandi and glided her into the bag. Wendy produced a hose that had a face mask that covers her nose and mouth, and straps attached to it.
Wendy said with a smile "We don't normally have to do anything like this, but most of our charges don't need to breathe. Jim made this for you Brandi".
Brandi held her head up was Wendy placed the black rubber face mask over her mouth and nose, and placed the rubber straps around Brandi's head and fastened it. Wendy asked if it was ok, Brandi nodded yes. Rich hooked the hose to a port that I had installed on the body bag so Brandi could breathe. Rich smiled and zip the body bag closed. They lifted the body bag onto the cart and strapped it down. We pushed the cart down the hall to the garage. We pushed the cart next to the casket and lifted the body bag with Brandi inside and place it in the Casket.
Rich said "We do not usually put someone in a casket on pickup but we thought you would like the ride in the hearse and casket on the long drive to the funeral home. Well Jim we have all of the paper filled out to transport this body to our mortuary. Please follow us there."
We heard Brandi giggling in her bag.
I asked Brandi are you ok? She said "un-huh into her face mask."
I said "Ok we're going to close the lid and load you into the hearse, if you need help just yell and they can hear you on the speaker I set up in the hearse. Are you ready?"
She said "un-huh into her face mask again"
I said with a laugh "Ok see you in a few hours, don't go anywhere baby!"
Rich shut the casket lid, and locked it. We all look at each other and smiled. Then we pushed the Casket into the hearse.
Driving on the dark country road following the black hearse I just wonder what was going through Brandi's mind right now. I hope she is having fun, but I knew she was.
Chapter 4: Night in the Mortuary
We rolled into the graveyard and pulled up to the funeral home rear entrance. As I walked up, Wendy and Rich had the casket out of the hearse and pushed it into the mortuary. I asked how was our corpse doing?
Rich said "All I heard was her purring all the way over here, she is a happy girl I think."
We rolled Brandi, still in the casket into the embalming room. Rich pushed the casket up next to the white porcelain embalming table. He unlocked the casket and opened the two lids and looked at the body bag tucked in the casket with the girl inside, and smiled.
Rich said "Brandi are you ok?"
The body bag shook a little and we are heard Brandi saying "uh-huh"
"Ok let's get going and prepare the corpse for night." Said Rich
Rich pulled a over head lift over the top of casket and hooked up some straps to the body bag. Then with the push of a button the bag lifted out of the casket and up in the air. Wendy pushed the casket away, Rich moved the lift over the embalming table and started to lowered the body bag on the table.
Wendy and Rich removed the lift straps, and moved the over head lift out of the way. Wendy unzipped the body bag and Brandi stared up at all of us with her dead eyes, thanks to the contact lens that Wendy placed in her eyes. Wendy reached down and unfastened the straps around Brandi's head and removed the face mask that she had been breathing through.
I looked at Brandi and she smiled. I asked her how she liked it so far.
Brandi bubbled up and said "Wow it's so cool I love it, thank you all for doing this for me."
Wendy said with a wicked grin "She's such a lively little dead girl."
We all laughed! Brandi smiled and laid her head down and started playing dead again. Rich and Wendy rolled Brandi on her side and removed the body bag from the table, then laid her back down on her back. The embalming table was cold but Brandi didn't care she was living out her darkest fantasy.
As Brandi lay on the embalming table, Wendy walk up the her head and place a soft head positioning block and then rubbed her hand through Brandi's hair and said "We must do something with this beautiful long black hair, so it doesn't get in the way was we prepare the her body."
Rich handed Wendy a surgical bouffant cap. Wendy gather Brandi's thick black hair a placed it in the cap, then adjusted it so all of her face showed, and all of her hair as covered.
"Now we can get some real make up on her to look the part." Wendy said
Brandi giggled
Rich said "Wendy and I are going to go change into our work clothes before we get serious about preparing Brandi for her funeral. Jim you can stay here and mourn your loss and talk to the dead."
They turned and walked out of the room Brandi laid there on the embalming table in her nightgown, light dead makeup, and her hair up in the cap, she really looked dead. It was sad, but sweet at the same time.
I rubbed Brandi's face and told her how much I loved her, and she couldn't die for real, ever. Brandi smiled and reached up pulled my face down to hers and kissed me and told me she love me too.
Rich walked in and said "I see a little necrophilia going on here?"
I laughed and said "no!"
Brandi Said with a laugh "He's trying to take advantage of my dead body, oh the shame"
Wendy walked in and told us she was going to remove Brandi's night gown so she could start to "prepare the body for burial"
"Do you mind if the boys stay and watch me airbrush you body with makeup to give you that dead look?" Wendy said with a grin.
Brandi said "Why would I care I am dead, right."
Wendy removed her nightgown and started spraying Brandi's body and up and down, giving her that pale ash look of the newly dead. After Brandi was dry, Wendy had her turn over on her front and started spraying her back side too.
Brandi said "You know no one but you three are going to see me without clothes on, seems like a lot of work to paint all of me?"
Wendy laughed and said "But you want to look the part don't you? Besides I don't get to use my special effects make-up skills much, this is fun for me"
"Great, That's good for me the more I look the part the better I like it!" Brandi said.
I was taking picture of the process, Brandi really looked dead now. Wendy now had Brandi turned back over and was working on her face make-up. The transformation was amazing only a few hours ago she was a healthy looking young woman and now laid, a woman who looked as if she had been dead for many hours.
When Wendy was done Brandi asked for a mirror to see herself. I was taking pictures as many as I could, but the one of Brandi when she looked in the mirror was the best of all. Brandi looked so shocked at first, then slowly started to smile, and told us how wild it was to see herself like this.
"I can't believe I look so dead and my eyes, these contacts are amazing. They look so glazed over and lifeless".
After staring at herself for sometime, she asked Wendy wouldn't the make-up wear off during the night? Wendy informed her that the make-up would not come off without using a special make-up removing cream.
"So it's on you till I take it off" Wendy said with an evil grin.
"In fact, when I do your face make-up tomorrow for your funeral I will be applying it over this base makeup. I think it will look more realistic." Wendy said with a voice of authority.
Brandi smiled and said "I can't believe how real it looks, and get plenty of pictures Jim, please."
"I will" I said.
Just then the bell rang. Rich said "It's the night deliver bell. Ok Brandi this is your first test of playing dead, don't move a muscle, and Jim go back into the living area of the house and wait for me to get you."
Then Rich pulled a sheet over Brandi including her head. He told Wendy to answer the door, as he attached a toe tag to Brandi's toe. Brandi thought to herself wow, I better do this good or I will have a very short career as a corpse.
Rich went to the door to let in his new guests. Then a few minutes late Rich walked back in the embalming room with two paramedics with a body bag on an ambulance cart.
"Please let's roll our new guest over here and place him into a morgue drawer. As you can see I am already have one guest to work on right now" Rich said.
The trio move over and place the body bag in the drawer and it was slid shut. Rich was signing some paperwork, as one of the paramedics walked over to the embalming table and asked, "Who is this? I did not hear about anybody dying tonight."
Rich said "It's a young woman from out of town".
By this time the paramedic was standing over the embalming table and lifted the sheet off of Brandi's head. Brandi froze, she felt the air rush over her face as the sheet was removed.
The paramedic said " Wow she's a pretty one and so young. How did she die?"
Rich said "It was a brain aneurysm, and she I was my friend's bride to be, so please put the sheet down."
The paramedic replaced the sheet over Brandi's face and said "I am sorry I didn't mean any disrespect".
Rich said "It's ok, here's your paperwork. Have a nice night Gentlemen."
With that the two men left the room and Wendy walked them out and locked the door behind them.
Rich walked over and lifted the sheet off Brandi's face once again, Brandi lay there still frozen.
Rich said with a soft voice "It's ok Brandi you can breathe now"
Brandi opened her eyes and took a few deep breaths and then smiled and said "Wow! That was a rush!"
Wendy said with a smile "Well honey you just passed the test, it's official you're a corpse"!
Rich asked Wendy to go get me from the living room. I returned with Wendy.
Rich said "Well it's getting late we need to get our dead girl ready for her bed for tonight, so to speak."
This story is on Gromet's Plaza website under packages stories, I thought I would add it here so if anyone looking for buried stories would see it! Thank you!