You may have seen it for sale on Facebook or Craigslist in Winona. “Handcrafted semi traditional toe pincher coffins,” the description says. “They make an excellent conversation piece coffee table, ...

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 ...

Aug. 27, 2010— -- The legal fight between the coffin-making monks of St. Joseph Abbey and Louisiana's powerful funeral industry looks like a classic mismatch. In one corner – representing the ...

One day in the 1950s -- the year is a bit vague -- a group of children were playing on Reservoir Hill in Helena when they found a coffin was jutting out from the dark dirt. It wasn't just any coffin; ...