Funerals in the Underground

Funerals in the underground world are twisted and bizarre, unlike anything on the surface.
They begin with a dark dirge, followed by eulogies, then the officiant carves the epitaph into a fence. Assistants and a pharmacist then send the body into a chute.
The pharmacist applies a live-bacteria salve that, upon contact with water, corrodes the body and pushes it through the pipe into the Abyssal, where it fully dissolves as if it never existed.

Such funerals are costly-a rare luxury underground. But what truly makes them exclusive to the wealthy is the unwritten rule: the host inherits all of the deceased's assets, legally and without question.