A proper (alternatively, decent) Christian burial was a passing craze in dead person disposal that had its heyday in the 1950's. It is usually considered as the first successful attempt to make dying look "cool"; in 1956 alone, 150 000 American citizens committed suicide in order to glory themselves with this latest fashion fad. The ingredients to the success of PCB were surprisingly simple: instead of the traditional throwing the corpse into a ditch while mumbling "Thank the lord", the new procedure foresaw a long and arduous messing about for the ingrates that the deceased had left behind him, such as for example carrying his corpse in a heavy box really slowly around the city, listening to hour long sermons without yawning and pretending to enjoy being around sniffling old ladies dresse