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2. Coffin - Wikipedia

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   A distinction is commonly drawn between "coffins" and "caskets", using "coffin" to refer to a tapered hexagonal or octagonal (also considered to be anthropoidal in shape) box and "casket" to refer to a rectangular box, often with a split lid used for viewing the deceased as seen in the picture. [2]

3. Supersize my funeral: caskets for the overabundant American - AOL

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   Here's a nightmare scenario; at the funeral for your considerably-overweight loved one, the funeral director lowers the top of the casket after viewing hours, only to find that, like an ...

4. Lincoln catafalque - Wikipedia

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   The attached base is 8 feet 10 inches (269 cm) long, 4 feet 3 + 1 ⁄ 2 inches (130.8 cm) wide, and 2 inches (5.1 cm) high. The platform is 11 feet 1 inch (338 cm) long, 6 feet (180 cm) wide, and 9 + 1 ⁄ 4 inches (23 cm) high. Although the cloth covering the catafalque has been replaced several times, the style of the drapery is similar to ...

5. Casket - Wikipedia

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   Casket most often refers to: Coffin, a box used for the display and burial of corpses; Casket (decorative box), a decorated container, usually larger than about 10 centimetres (4 inches) in width and length, but smaller than a "chest" Chasse (casket), a decorated container typically from medieval Europe having a shape that resembles a house

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8. Casket (decorative box) - Wikipedia

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   An Italian jewelry casket, 1857, carved walnut, lined with red velvet A casket [ 1 ] is a decorative box or container that is usually smaller than a chest and is typically decorated. In recent centuries they are often used as boxes for jewelry, but in earlier periods they were also used for keeping important documents and many other purposes. [ 2 ]

9. Burial vault (enclosure) - Wikipedia

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   Open burial vault awaiting coffin (2006). A burial vault (also known as a burial liner, grave vault, and grave liner) is a container, formerly made of wood or brick but more often today made of metal or concrete, that encloses a coffin to help prevent a grave from sinking.