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 ...

Michael Scheetz places the cover on a handcrafted coffin in his workshop on Friday, July 13, 2018, in Provo. Scheetz has been crafting caskets and coffins for over ten years. Michael Scheetz sands a ...

The FTC’s Funeral Rule mandates that consumers do not have to accept packages at funeral homes and are free to pick and choose the goods and services they wish. Funeral providers are also required to ...

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 ...