Coffins tend to be made of wood, while caskets can contain a variety of materials, with wood and metal being the most common.

A funeral home worker was crushed to death when a burial vault toppled on him in a freak accident at a Dallas mortuary Monday ...

Thousands of people are queuing in Edinburgh to pay their respects to the Queen as she lies in her closed coffin in St Giles’ Cathedral. King Charles III, Princess Anne, Prince Edward, and Prince ...

The 74-year-old conducted the social experiment in order to see just how much attention he would receive once he was gone.

Modern technology has developed new methods of treating human remains, many of which are incompatible with church teaching, such as “human composting” or alkaline hydrolysis, also known as water ...

It’s that time of year again–time for Emma Crawford and her pallbearers to don their funniest, spookiest, cleverest costumes ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — The death of a pope sets in motion a series of carefully orchestrated rites and rituals well before the conclave to elect his successor begins. They involve the certification of ...

The death of Pope Francis now sets off a series of carefully orchestrated rites and rituals. Francis has said he wants to be buried not in St. Peter’s Basilica or its grottoes, where most popes are ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. NEW PORTLAND – Ronald M. Coffin, United States Army retired, of New Portland ...

GRAND MARAIS (AP) -- The build-your-own-coffin class starts with instructor Mark Hansen describing the first one he built. It was for Helmer Aakvik, a Lake Superior fisherman from Hovland, Minn. Back ...

A Dutch start-up has created a biodegradable "living coffin" made of a fungus, instead of wood, which it says can convert a decomposing human body into key nutrients for plants.