Read more coffin stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/1101/coffin.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 10:45:54 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/72900/wal-mart-enters-coffin-biz.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagAmerica's leading big-box store is now also a pine box store. Wal-Mart has started selling a range of discount coffins on its website and plans to expand its death products to include pet urns and memorial jewelry. Prices start at just $895 for a steel coffin. Funeral home owners say...http://www.newser.com/story/72900/wal-mart-enters-coffin-biz.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 30 Oct 2009 2:08:06 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/70543/media-lose-interest-in-war-dead-only-ap-shoots-coffins.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagBack when George W. Bush was president, the media made a big fuss about the administration’s refusal to allow the press to photograph soldiers’ coffins, saying it hid the true cost of the war. President Obama lifted the ban in April, and the media flocked to snap shots of that...http://www.newser.com/story/70543/media-lose-interest-in-war-dead-only-ap-shoots-coffins.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 29 Sep 2009 11:13:27 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/63205/jackson-may-be-on-view-in-glass-coffin.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMichael Jackson’s funeral could be as lavish as one of his concerts. His body will reportedly be transported in a horse-drawn carriage, and he could be on view in a glass coffin. “The glass casket idea would create so much public interest it would take time to organize,” a source...http://www.newser.com/story/63205/jackson-may-be-on-view-in-glass-coffin.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 30 Jun 2009 10:53:33 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/50884/should-we-allow-coffin-pics.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagPresident Obama is reviewing a media ban at Dover Air Force Base, where dead soldiers arrive in flag-draped coffins, but "in truth, it's not an easy issue," John Barry writes in Newsweek . There is widespread support for raising the ban "as a way of reminding the public of the cost...http://www.newser.com/story/50884/should-we-allow-coffin-pics.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSun, 15 Feb 2009 16:26:03 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/46852/final-green-frontier-cemeteries.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagAs the green movement contemplates the afterlife, more funeral directors are seeing demand for a sendoff without the embalming and sturdy coffins of traditional burials, the Wall Street Journal reports. Natural burials won't necessarily put funeral directors out of business: Yes, simple shrouds are available, but so is a $300...http://www.newser.com/story/46852/final-green-frontier-cemeteries.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 02 Jan 2009 11:53:59 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/44083/fans-get-prime-seats-for-eternal-extra-innings.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagDie-hard baseball fans can now continue showing their team pride even in the afterlife. A Boston-area funeral home is offering its first-ever Red Sox casket, emblazoned with the team’s logo and accented with baseball-bat-type wood. “It's really a beautiful thing,” the funeral-home director, a Sox fan himself, tells the Globe...http://www.newser.com/story/44083/fans-get-prime-seats-for-eternal-extra-innings.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 01 Dec 2008 12:35:01 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/38837/thais-take-coffin-naps-to-fix-karma.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagAs Thailand's economy slows and its government falters, growing numbers of deeply superstitious citizens are jostling into a pink coffin to "die," the Telegraph reports. At about $5 a head, monks in a monastery outside Bangkok officiate over the "dead bodies" in the coffins, before ushering in the next group...http://www.newser.com/story/38837/thais-take-coffin-naps-to-fix-karma.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 01 Oct 2008 19:44:25 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/36199/lost-coffins-remain-part-of-katrinas-legacy.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagLouisiana is still finding coffins displaced by Hurricane Katrina three years on, the Wall Street Journal reports. Katrina and Rita moved 1,500 bodies from their resting places in the state's swampy south, where floating coffins during floods have long been part of local folklore. Hundreds remain unidentified, and they...http://www.newser.com/story/36199/lost-coffins-remain-part-of-katrinas-legacy.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSat, 30 Aug 2008 11:32:41 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/25103/greenies-can-rip-with-eco-friendly-funerals.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagGreenies who bought organic in life can become more organic in death, the AP reports. Brits have enjoyed the eco-friendly funeral for years, but now cardboard coffins and natural fibers for corpses are catching on Stateside. "People are trying to think about what's the best way to live and with...http://www.newser.com/story/25103/greenies-can-rip-with-eco-friendly-funerals.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSun, 20 Apr 2008 17:35:17 CDT