ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) -- Wooden trays are so useful when you want to transport food and beverages. Apparently they're also pretty handy to cart around a dead body. The direct-to-the-customer coffin ...

GRAND MARAIS (AP) -- The build-your-own-coffin class starts with instructor Mark Hansen describing the first one he built. It was for Helmer Aakvik, a Lake Superior fisherman from Hovland, Minn. Back ...

People commission coffins to reflect anything from their aspirations, like Kane Kwei’s grandmother’s, their social position, their careers or hobbies, or things of import to them, like Murray’s Empire ...

ST. PAUL, Minn.—Wooden trays are so useful when you want to transport food and beverages. Apparently they’re also pretty handy to cart around a dead body. The direct-to-the-customer coffin shop, ...

ST. PAUL - Wooden trays are so useful when you want to transport food and beverages. Apparently they're also pretty handy to cart around a dead body. The direct-to-the-customer coffin shop, Affordable ...

"Furnishing Eternity: A Father, a Son, a Coffin, and a Measure of Life," by David Giffels. Scribner, 256 pages. $24. A memoir about building one's own coffin while your best friend and your mother die ...

Fred Guentert plans to spend eternity like a pharaoh. For the past 25 years, Guentert has been building an Egyptian-themed coffin fit for a king at his home near Orlando. And one day, he’ll be buried ...

That’s the blessing of building a coffin and sharing the news with people you care about, he says. “If you don’t talk about it, you’re depriving them of the chance to show you how much they love you.