Coffins tend to be made of wood, while caskets can contain a variety of materials, with wood and metal being the most common.

FORT LEE, New Jersey -- A family is suing a New Jersey funeral home after it was revealed mid-ceremony that their loved one wasn't the person inside the casket. The family of 93-year-old Kyung Ja Kim ...

But when loved ones confronted the funeral home, a work tried to convince them that they were ones mistaken, according to a lawsuit. Amentha Hunt said her family was traumatized when they arrived at ...

PHILADELPHIA (CBS)-- Philadelphia police say an infant-sized casket with human remains that was found in North Philadelphia was dumped by an employee from a New Jersey funeral home. The casket with ...

Three caskets and embalming fluid are among the items stolen from an Upstate funeral home, according to an incident report from Union Public Safety.Police were called to the Gibson and Brown Funeral ...

SAN LORENZO (KPIX) - Every day is bring your kid to work day for two working moms at an East Bay funeral home now that COVID-19 has their kids doing distance-learning. Lisa Bradshaw runs Grissom's ...

A family has filed a $50 million lawsuit against a New Jersey funeral service after they say the wrong body was put inside a casket before the funeral for their mother. The daughter of 93-year-old ...

PHILADELPHIA — Police have solved part of the mystery of the child’s casket found on a Philadelphia sidewalk: A funeral home worker dumped it there, apparently unaware it contained some of the remains ...

The casket was featured on ESPN’s “Sunday NFL Countdown” prior to the game, and prompted a tweet from ESPN personality Pat ...