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 ...

A reader writes in about a point of precision in the language: Please ensure your editors know the difference between a casket and a coffin. All too often people use the word coffin when in fact they ...

Two days after the shooting, the fallen president's casket was lying in state at the Capitol Building. His first casket was ...

Jude Collins says she couldn't have prayed for a better location for her shop. It's on a busy street with a four-way stop and bus stop right in front and a cemetery just two blocks away. "I can see ...

Titan Casket cofounder Joshua Siegel discusses his company’s efforts to disrupt the funeral industry—including a Black Friday sale. The funeral home industry is worth $18 billion and hasn’t changed ...