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  2. Premature burial - Wikipedia

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    Premature burial can lead to death through the following: asphyxiation, dehydration, starvation, or (in cold climates) hypothermia.A person trapped with fresh air to breathe can last a considerable time and burial has been used as a very cruel method of execution (as in cases of Vestal Virgins who violated the oath of celibacy), lasting sufficiently long for the victim to comprehend and ...

  3. Burial vault (enclosure) - Wikipedia

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    A burial vault encloses a coffin on all four sides, the top, and the bottom. Modern burial vaults are lowered into the grave, and the coffin lowered into the vault. A lid is then lowered to cover the coffin and seal the vault. Modern burial vaults may be made of concrete, metal, or plastic.

  4. Mortsafe - Wikipedia

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    An iron coffin mortsafe in Colinton, once a village outside Edinburgh. Surviving mortsafes are generally found in churchyards and burial grounds. Some are very broken and rusting away. One has been restored and hung in a church porch, with an explanatory note, by the East Lothian Antiquary Society. There are one or two in museums, but those on ...

  5. Coffin - Wikipedia

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    A coffin shop in Macau A Universal Casket sales kiosk within a U.S. Costco warehouse retail store in California. Traditionally, in the Western world, a coffin was made, when required, by the village carpenter, who would frequently manage the whole funeral. The design and workmanship would reflect the skills of that individual carpenter, with ...

  6. Natural burial - Wikipedia

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    Islamic law instructs that the deceased be washed and buried with only a wrapping of white cloth. The cloth is used to preserve the dead person's dignity and to emphasize simplicity. The cloth is sometimes perfumed, but in a natural burial, no chemical preservatives or embalming fluid are used, nor is there a burial vault, coffin or casket.

  7. Funeral train - Wikipedia

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    Abraham Lincoln's funeral train.. A funeral train carries a coffin or coffins (caskets) to a place of interment by railway.Funeral trains today are often reserved for leaders, national heroes, or government officials, as part of a state funeral, but in the past were sometimes the chief means of transporting coffins and mourners to graveyards.

  8. Economy coffin - Wikipedia

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    The economy coffin, hinged coffin or Josephinian coffin (German: Sparsarg, Klappsärge, or Josephinischer Sarg) [1] [2] was a type of reusable coffin introduced by Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor in the late 18th century. The body was carried in the coffin to the gravesite where it would be dropped into the grave through folding doors on the base.

  9. Coffin home - Wikipedia

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    A coffin home (simplified Chinese: 义庄; traditional Chinese: 義莊; pinyin: yìzhuāng; Cantonese Yale: yih-jōng; Japanese: gisō (義荘)) is a temporary coffin depository where the coffins containing the cadavers of recently deceased people are temporarily stored while awaiting transport to the place of burial.

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