Read more casket stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/1102/casket.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 6:00:39 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/63859/questions-linger-in-wake-of-memorial.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFans are donating to the city of Los Angeles in an effort to defray the cost of Michael Jackson’s memorial, E! reports. The final total is still in the works, and some famous friends and corporate sponsors are rumored to have donated generously. More from the aftermath: Los Angeles could...http://www.newser.com/story/63859/questions-linger-in-wake-of-memorial.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 08 Jul 2009 8:44:18 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/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/36803/as-cremations-increase-so-do-options.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe cremation industry is booming, a reflection of tighter economic times and a push from consumers for more creative funeral options, reports the Washington Post . Cremations, cheaper than traditional burial, rose 7% nationwide in the past 5 years and made up 35% of the funeral market last year. Funeral homes...http://www.newser.com/story/36803/as-cremations-increase-so-do-options.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSun, 07 Sep 2008 14:00:15 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/1354/death-be-not-proud-at-a-discount.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWhat does it say about us, Mark Morford asks, that wandering the aisles at Costco in Palm Desert, CA, we come upon not only drums of olive oil and eighty-packs of frozen cream puffs, but over there, right next to the tires and the lawn furniture and right behind the...http://www.newser.com/story/1354/death-be-not-proud-at-a-discount.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 12 Apr 2007 16:47:22 CDT