Coffin

A coffin is a funerary box used for viewing or keeping a corpse, for either burial or cremation.

Coffins are sometimes referred to as caskets, particularly in American English. Any box in which the dead are buried is a coffin, and while a casket was originally regarded as a box for jewelry, use of the word "casket" in this sense began as a euphemism introduced by the undertaker's trade. 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.

• I'll have your mama picking out your casket, bastard.
  • 50 Cent, "What Up Gangsta" (2003), Get Rich or Die Tryin'

• A mother cries; another son lies in a casket. Life was fun while it lasted.
  • Eazy-E, "Any Last Werdz" (5 November 1993), It's On (Dr. Dre) 187um Killa, California: Ruthless Records

• Butterflies
  Love and follow this flower
  wreath—
  that on the coffin lies
  • Meisetsu recalled in Conrad Hyers, ‘Swimming in the ocean of becoming, A Zen perspective on death’, in The Inner Journey, Views from the Buddhist Tradition, Philip Novak [ed.], Parabola Anthology Series, Morning Light Press, 2005, Sandpoint, ID, pp. 283-89., quoted from Arun Shourie, Preparing: For Death. Penguin Random House India Private Limited, 2020. ISBN 935305978X, 9789353059781

• Encyclopedic article on Coffin on Wikipedia