Funeral Planning : How to Buy a Coffin

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.

Expert: Steve Spann
Contact: www.guptoncollege.com
Bio: Steve Spann is the president of John A. Gupton College, which provides a professional curriculum in the funeral arts and sciences.
Filmmaker: Dimitri LaBarge

Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• funerals
• memorial services
• funeral planning
• bereavement
• grief
• funeral arrangements
• eulogy
• coffins
• gravestones
• cemetery
• wakes
• funeral services
• cremation

[morethan20]

Hey that was funny

[juplm4000]

i just want 1 to sleep in...

[ColoradoKing26]

What if I don't want a casket or coffin?

[label1877]

You better not visit Europe, because there, you can purchase a casket from a variety of hardware stores, variety stores big and small. After all, it's just a box.

[haloman977]

@label1877 DAmn! i think its kind of Heartless if someones family buys this from Costco 4 there love one.

[ffairlane57]

Don't buy metal caskets...buy wood instead.

There is no need to preserve a body indefinitely in something that rusts like an old car.

[label1877]

Today you go to Costco, (even if you must drive 120 miles) and buy one. The funeral home must accept it, by a FTC 1994 law. Don't let the funeral home talk you out of it, it's your damn money.

[furiocity202]

This guy gives me the creeps! He should be in a tent at the carnival.

[DanielR305]

inturnall sleep and will also give a nice imagination of the dead person will wait for them on the other side, where a coffin looks harsh uncomfortable and to me right there are dead dead the end. where a casket to me gives a lesser harsh imagination of the final journey as I have said I would like a light wooden casket with a celtic logo on it also dannyboy played at my funeral also I would love to be intered in a forturess tomb I really don't want to be cremated I be buried in a tomb if poss

[DanielR305]

in the states I suppose it is standard practace to use a casket than a coffin where in the uk we use coffins or unless u can buy a casket which would a lot in the uk to buy. But personally for me I would perfer a casket to a coffin because it would the griefing families a genteler way to say a goodbye than in a coffin because coffins seem so final and harsh where a casket to me seems gentler way to say goodbye and just gives the family the imagination of the dead person that they are in a cont