the best wood to make a coffin is going to be oak pin ceder etc. i would go pine myself its inexpencive durable and flexible if the coffin is made for sleeping in go pine
In the U.S., wooden caskets are made either from particle board and softwoods (cedar, cypress, pine,
redwood, spruce) or from hardwoods (ash, beech, birch, cherry, chestnut, elm, mahogany, maple, oak, poplar, black walnut and willow).
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stone coffin in which wood coffin was placed
sarcophagus
Sarcophagus
Sarcophagus
You can make a cardboard coffin or casket using a leftover refrigerator box. Just cut the sides of the box down to create a smaller box and then paint the box to look like wood. You can add pillows to the interior of the box to make it more "coffin-like."
A vault. Some states require one in addition to a wooden or cardboard casket to prevent erosion once the wood or other type casket starts to degrade. There are "Green cemetaries/burials where natural wood or fiber materials are used. A stone coffin from the Egyptian pyramids is called a Sarcophagus.
They put the mummified dead into a coffin made of wood (sometimes into several coffins), which were richly decorated, and the coffin (or coffins) was put into a sarcophagus which was made of stone.
A sarcophagus
In a tomb In a tomb.
it is a hearse.
It was called a sarcophagus (Latin- "flesh eater"), hence the wooden coffin fit inside the stone receptacle.