The Science of Grave Depth

Each week I come up with three science news items or facts, two real and one fake. And then I challenge my panel, skeptics, tell me which one they think is the fake. We have a theme this week. The theme is death. Just like that, huh? That's it. That's a toast. All right, here we go. Item number one, the six foot standard for grave depth dates to 1665 when the Lord Mayor of London ordered all graves to be dug at least six feet deep as an anti-plague measure. item number 2, the term mortician was invented by the funeral industry in 1895 to replace undertaker based on a contest in embal