According to Roderick, he feared that the medical men "would disturb her body" so he talked the narrator into helping him place her in a coffin and then put her in a vault until they later took her to the cemetery.
However, some believe that Roderick knew what he was doing when he buried her alive. Her skin was rosy enough that the reader could tell that she still had some life in her yet. The two of them had been cursed since birth, from their incestuous relationship, and this was his way of ridding himself of the curse.
Others yet believe that the narrator is also in on the burying her alive deal, and is just as evil as Roderick. Whichever plot seems correct, it all comes down to the fact that Roderick is sick. He is mentally sick, which affects him physically, and he either doesn't know what to do with her, or he intentionally wants to get rid of her. These actions of his just add to the horror of the story, which, after all is what Poe is all about in his stories.
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