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this post was submitted on 30 May 2025
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If you find it hard to remember, just think about funeral homes trying to rip people off and that "casket" is a term from those little jewelry boxes for rings and such, and those are hinged.
Funeral homes want more money = trying to associate your dead family with jewelry = "spend a little more for a nice casket, you don't want them to rot in some coffin do you?"
Of the hundreds I have I have yet to carry a coffin. But regularly carry caskets. Even green burials which take place in wicker and reed "boxes" .... They are made in flate panels and then strung together to form a large basket still refered to as a casket.
This is quite literally down my area of operation though... some mayoffer coffins but know it isn't a matter of just cost but sometimes offerings in the local area as well as regulations and customs ... though most of it is very similar there can be quite wildly different processes.
Yeah I think in addition to the jewelery association, "casket" has become the default term because "coffin" feels a little, idk, blasé? Something something euphemism treadmill
So, just the base level of a pyramid scheme.
No -- that would be if they tried to tempt you to be buried in a sarcophagus