casket
Final resting vessel
A casket is a box for storing or displaying valued objects, or more commonly in American English, a coffin—the box in which a dead body is buried or cremated.
The burial sense dominates modern usage, though the older meaning of a small ornamental box for jewelry or keepsakes persists in some contexts.
The family chose a mahogany casket for the funeral.
Casket tends to sound more euphemistic and genteel than coffin, which may explain its preference in American funeral industry language.
Burial container for remains
- graveSerious and worrying
- tombUnderground chamber for remains
- cryptSubterranean burial vault
- mausoleumMonumental building for interment
sepulcher · interment · cemetery · graveyard · plot · headstone · epitaph · mortuary
Tribute for the dead
- wakePath left in water
- memorialThing preserving remembrance
- processionFormal moving line
- pallbearersFuneral procession carriers
hearse · requiem · condolences · grief · mourning · obituary · graveside · tribute
Overlaid with gold leaf
- carvedCut to create form
- embellishedDecorated or exaggerated
- intricateElaborately detailed, many parts
- filigreeDelicate twisted-wire ornamentation
polished · mahogany · brass handles · velvet lining · lacquered · engraved · rosewood · cherry wood
coffin
Burial container for remains
mausoleum · sepulcher · interment · cemetery · graveyard · plot · headstone · epitaph · mortuary · undertaker
eulogy
Tribute for the dead
- wakePath left in water
- memorialThing preserving remembrance
- processionFormal moving line
pallbearers · hearse · requiem · condolences · grief · mourning · obituary · graveside · tribute · remembrance
gilded
Overlaid with gold leaf
- carvedCut to create form
- embellishedDecorated or exaggerated
- intricateElaborately detailed, many parts
filigree · polished · mahogany · brass handles · velvet lining · lacquered · engraved · rosewood · cherry wood · bronze
trinket box
Small container for mementos
- keepsakeItem preserved for sentiment
- heirloomInherited family treasure
- locketHinged pendant holding keepsakes
jewels · gems · precious · ornamental · decorative · miniature · antique · valuables · memento · reliquary
- funeral customsburial, funeral, cremation, funeral procession, mourning
- funeralsfuneral, burial, cremation, coffin, funeral homes
- mortalitydeath, death knell, deceased, death rate, death acceptance
- gravesgravestones, headstones, gravestone, tombstones, headstone
- death carefuneral, burial, cremation, coffin, hearse
- funeralfuneral, burial, funeral home, funeral director, coffin
casketurn
Decorative container for ashes
cremation urn · funeral pyre · ossuary · body bag · shroud
caskettreasure chest
Locked box for valuables
jewelry box · hope chest · trousseau · gift box · keepsake box
- open casketFuneral with visible remains
- closed casketBurial container kept shut
- lowering the casket
- casket sprayFloral tribute for burial