Coffin

A coffin (which some call a casket) is a box used for the display and burial or cremation of a cadaver.

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Some people mistakenly believe that a coffin is a tapered hexagonal or octagonal box used for a burial, and that a rectangular coffin ought to be called a "casket" instead. This is the general view taken inside the funeral industry and should be remembered when speaking with a funeral director. Technically however all solid containers for a dead human body are coffins, regardless of shape, the amount of upholstery they contain etc. Receptacles for cremated human ashes (sometimes called cremains) are called urns.

Box: This article is about the receptacle called a box. For other meanings see box (disambiguation)....

Burial: Burial, also called interment and (when applied to human burial) inhumation, is the act of placing a person or object into the ground. Usually, this is accomplished by digging a pit or trench, placing the person or object in it, and refilling it with the soil that was dug out of it....

Cremation: Cremation is the practice of disposing of a corpse by burning. This often takes place in a crematorium or crematory. Cremation and burial are the main ways of final disposition of the dead....

Coffin related Images and Photos (experimental)

Elvira - Coffin, Cutout	Elvira Coffin	David Stone Coffin	Elizabeth Stone Coffin
Monster High Coffin Bean and Clawdeen Wolf Playset	NBX Jack Skellington Logo Coffin Pewter Key Chain	The Corpse Vanishes Tris Coffin Luana Walters Bela Lugosi Joan Barclay 1942	Lid of the Coffin of the Singer Toarnemiherti Showing the Deceased Offering Incense to Osiris
Men Lifting Count Folke Bernadotte's Coffin from the Plane	Image of the Head of the Outer Coffin of Tutankhamen Ancient Egyptian Pharaoh	King Edward VIII Sprinkles Earth on His Father's Coffin 1936