Coffins tend to be made of wood, while caskets can contain a variety of materials, with wood and metal being the most common. Caskets typically cost more than coffins due to their more ornate design ...

Krystle Johnson said her family planned to hold an open-casket funeral after her mother-in-law died July 31 at a hospice facility. But after making arrangements with McDermott’s Funeral Home and ...

The head of the Serbian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Irinej, died in a Belgrade hospital on Friday after contracting coronavirus, according to a statement from the church. The head of the Serbian ...

From Dracula’s resting place to polished funeral-home displays, the vessels we associate with death have evolved, and so has the language. Take the words coffin and casket, for example. People tend to ...