People commission coffins to reflect anything from their aspirations, like Kane Kwei’s grandmother’s, their social position, their careers or hobbies, or things of import to them, like Murray’s Empire ...

"Furnishing Eternity: A Father, a Son, a Coffin, and a Measure of Life," by David Giffels. Scribner, 256 pages. $24. A memoir about building one's own coffin while your best friend and your mother die ...

ST. PAUL, Minn.—Wooden trays are so useful when you want to transport food and beverages. Apparently they’re also pretty handy to cart around a dead body. The direct-to-the-customer coffin shop, ...

In his last years my father, the writer William Manchester, told me, “When I die. I want you children to build my coffin.” He’d gotten the idea sometime in the ’70s, when a Wesleyan chemistry ...

GRAND MARAIS (AP) -- The build-your-own-coffin class starts with instructor Mark Hansen describing the first one he built. It was for Helmer Aakvik, a Lake Superior fisherman from Hovland, Minn. Back ...

That’s the blessing of building a coffin and sharing the news with people you care about, he says. “If you don’t talk about it, you’re depriving them of the chance to show you how much they love you.

An Iowa man has built his own coffin from a huge walnut tree that started growing around 1930, the year he was born. The tree is actually that of his neighbors, but when Eighty-one-year-old Ray ...