How Coffins Work

Stuff You Should Know

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Society & Culture

4.6 • 79.3K Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2013

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Sure, you've probably laid in one at the store or a funeral home, but how much do you know about receptacles used to bury the dead? We'll bet you'll learn plenty - like the difference between a coffin and a casket - in this episode.

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0:00.0	There's so much news happening around the world that we're somehow supposed to stay on top of.
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0:16.4	I'm Wes Kosova.
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0:31.4	Welcome to Stuffy Should Know from HouseofWorks.com.
0:41.4	Hey and welcome to the podcast on Josh Clark, there's Charles W. Chuck Bryant and this
0:45.5	is Stuffy Should Know.
0:47.1	The podcast.
0:48.1	That's right.
0:49.1	This is part of our ongoing Death Suite, which is sweet.
0:53.4	Yeah, we've covered death a lot because death is multifaceted.
0:58.0	You know, and this reminded me of the, I guess, the covered green burial not in in some
1:03.6	podcast, but in like different ways to.
1:06.7	What to do with the dead body?
1:07.7	There you go.
1:08.7	That's what I thought it was in too, but I'm surprised we didn't do a podcast dedicated
1:12.5	just to that.
1:13.5	Maybe we should.
1:14.5	Yeah, I looked out because I'm interested in that for myself and there are some lovely
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