Coffin

Undertakers dancing with casket

A coffin

A coffin (also known as a casket) is a box used to keep dead bodies, either for burial or after cremation.

The word comes ultimately from Greek kophinos, a basket. In English, the word was not used in a funeral sense until the 1500s.

Any box used to bury the dead in is a coffin.

Other websites

• Museum of Funeral Customs
• BBC Business News 2001-12-28: Bamboo Coffins "Coffin-maker resurrects tradition"
• Plans For Building A Halloween Coffin