metal casket

Iron burial box

A metal casket is a coffin made from steel, bronze, copper, or other metals rather than wood.

Metal caskets are standard in American funeral practice, often featuring sealed gaskets marketed as protective—though this delays rather than prevents decomposition.

They chose a bronze casket for the viewing.

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bronze · steel · cemetery · lid · handles · velvet · satin · lining · death · grave · vault · hearse · pallbearers · mortuary · interment · laid to rest · embalming · wake

Opposites
material composition

metal casketpine box

Wooden burial vessel

wooden coffin

environmental impact/burial philosophy

metal casketnatural burial

Chemical-free earth interment

burial shroud · direct cremation · sky burial

formality and cost

metal casketdirect burial

Casket placed directly underground

Family

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Top 500,000
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Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Negative · Everyday, not technical · Rated PG