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Summary: A coffin, or casket, can be purchased at a funeral home with the help of a funeral director. Buy a coffin prior to death with help from a licensed funeral director and embalmer in this free video on funeral planning.
Steve Spann is the president of John A. Gupton College, which provides a professional curriculum in the funeral arts and sciences. As a licensed funeral director and embalmer, Spann...read more
"Our topic today is how to purchase a coffin or how to purchase a casket. Today you may hear individuals refer to them as coffins. Well what is the difference between a coffin and a casket? Coffin is basically the antique or the old term for what we use to today that we refer to as caskets. A coffin was normally referred to as the "old hill squeezers" or caskets or coffins that were wide at the shoulder, narrow at the foot and narrow at the head. That was what we referred to as "coffins". Today, we refer to them as caskets, which they're the same width at the, at the top as they are at the end. From one end to the other they're the same width. How do you purchase a casket? Caskets today can be purchased a number of different ways, there's even a possibility or capability of purchasing them on the Internet. Most families purchase a casket from a Funeral Home, once the occasion arises that you need to or that you feel it's going to arise in the near future, you would contact your local Funeral Director. Someone that you trust and sit down with them and look at the options that are available. Whether it's the wood variety, or whether it's the steel variety, and your local Funeral Director, someone that you trust, can sit down and explain the differences to this. Many families find it's much easier to do this pre-need, meaning prior to the death, and pick out what you want for yourself, or pick out what you want for your loved one, prior to the death occurring and the grief and things that follow the death. So, once you get to the point that you've decided you need to do this, go and talk to your local Funeral Director and he'll sit down and explain the differences of one casket from another, and give you the price ranges from one casket to another."
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