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the only box you'll ever buy that you can't return for a refund.
means A casket is a small box for keeping valuables — or, in American usage, the rectangular coffin in which a body is buried.
from From Old French 'cassette,' meaning a little box for jewels and treasures — itself a diminutive of 'casse,' a case or chest, ultimately tracing back to Latin 'capsa.' For centuries it kept rings and relics; only in 19th-century America did undertakers borrow the genteel word for coffins, preferring its softer sound to the blunt 'coffin' — turning a jewel-box into a final resting place.
- word origin
- Originally meant a small jewelry box, not a coffin
- green burial
- Mushroom suits now replace caskets entirely
- markup
- Funeral home caskets are marked up 300 percent
- costco sells them
- Yes, you can buy a casket on Costco
- airtight myth
- Sealed caskets actually speed up decomposition inside
king tut's casket — nested gold coffin of egyptian pharaoh tutankhamun, 1323 bce, cairo museum
lincoln's casket — mahogany coffin of president abraham lincoln, displayed at the smithsonian institution
diana's casket — lead-lined oak coffin of princess diana, westminster abbey funeral, august 31 1997