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the only furniture you'll never sit in, built for one final occupancy.
means Coffins are funeral boxes built to hold and bury a dead body, typically tapered to the shape of human shoulders.
from From Old French 'cofin,' a basket or case, which came from Latin 'cophinus' and Greek 'kophinos,' meaning a basket or hamper — so the word once held bread and goods, not bodies. For centuries 'coffin' could mean any chest or container (even a pie crust was called a coffin); only later did the burial sense crowd out the rest, narrowing a humble basket-word down to its single, final use.
- shoulder shape
- The tapered hexagon mimics the human body's widest point
- casket vs coffin
- Caskets are rectangular; coffins follow your silhouette
- saved by bell
- Victorian safety coffins had cords to ring above
- green burial
- Mushroom and cardboard coffins now decompose on purpose
tutankhamun's coffin — nested gold coffins of the egyptian pharaoh, innermost weighs 110.4 kg, discovered 1922
lenin's mausoleum coffin — preserved in red square, moscow, since 1924, displayed in temperature-controlled glass case
hans holbein's painted coffins — decorated coffin lids from basel, switzerland, 16th century, now in museums