the most expensive material used to make a casket, bronze, is considered by the industry to be the material most suitable for casket construction due to its strength and natural ability to resist rust
Technetium and Rhodium.
I am sodium because I am a metal and metals are heavy and i am also very expensive.
Based on monetary value (up to $10,000 USD per ounce) Rhodium, a member of the platinum group, would be the the most precious metal on earth.
The most expensive houses in the world are spread throughout different countries / continents. There is no country / location that contains all of the most expensive houses. The world most expensive house is located in India and the second most expensive is located in France.
Platinum is an inert metal that is more expensive than gold. It is known for its high value, resistance to corrosion, and diverse industrial applications.
Probably Franklin D. Roosevelt, who - contrary to his wishes - was buried in a rare semiprecious metal casket. But Ronald Reagan, who was put to rest in a luxurious hardwood casket, is also a candidate. Whose casket was the more expensive one is difficult to determine because of the problems involved in comparing prices over a long period of time.
Possible, but unlikely. In most places, a casket or coffin is placed in a metal or concrete vault which is placed in the grave before the casket.
The former Marsellus Casket Company was renown as the leading hardwood casket manufacturer in the US. Marsellus caskets were regarded as the finest - and most expensive - hardwood caskets in America.
Wooden caskets are usually burned. Metal caskets more seldomly. Sometimes a rental casket (made of either metal or wood) is used for the service; after the service the cardboard cremation container is taken out of the rental casket and burned. There have been a few fraud cases in which the funeral director took out the body out of an expensive wooden casket and tried to sell it again as new. The body had been cremated either without a casket or in a cardboard container or a cheap wooden cremation casket.
Platiaum is the most expensive metal they use to make jewlery.
Technetium and Rhodium.
Currently Platinum
Most casket sizes fall within an inch or two of the following dimensions: 84 inches long, 28 inches wide, and 23 inches tall.
Prices vary from country to country. In the United States, the cheapest wooden caskets (like cloth covered particle board coffins) start at prices around $ 500. Cardboard caskets are even cheaper. The most expensive wooden casket is currently (in 2014) Batesville's (Marsellus) "Masterpiece" solid African Mahogany casket with a manufacturer's suggested retail price of $ 38,000, but offered by Online casket retailers already at prices around $ 16,000 (plus 2,000 for an optional carved top). Metal casket prices start around $ 700 for unsealed 20 gauge steel caskets (Online casket retailers), sealed metal caskets being somewhat more expensive. Sheet copper and bronze caskets are available from § 2,000 (Online casket retailers). The most expensive casket on the market is currently a 1,100 lbs heavy cast bronze Pharaoh Sarcophagus manufactured by the York-Matthews Company, offered at a manufacturer's suggested list price of $ 270,000, but sold by discount casket retailers already at a "bargain" price of $ 160,000. The casket prices charged by funeral homes are often considerably higher than those of Online casket retailers.
Because they were made of some good metal or something.....
Almost. Michael Jackson's "Batesville Promethean" casket, made of extra thick (48 oz) sheets of wrought bronze and equipped with gold plated handles, is currently (2014) offered at prices between $ 22.000 and 48.000; the Jackson family is said to have paid 25.000 for it in 2009. But the most expensive casket available would have been York's cast bronze "Pharaoh Sarcophagus", currently offered at priced between $ 160.00 and 270.000. Compared with the price of this casket, Michael Jackson was buried in a coffin with but a rather "modest" price. With some luck, Michael Jackson might have been buried in one of the last National seamless copper deposit caskets available. These caskets, which were used for the burial of celebrities like Elvis Presley and Aaliyah, were manufactured only until the 1970s and cost about 12 times as much as the lowest priced copper caskets made of sheet metal, or about one third of a cast bronze casket. This would mean a current price of an estimated $ 35.000 to 55.000. Another more expensive choice might have been the "Monarch Elite" model offered by The Gold Casket: the solid cherry casket gilded with 24 karat gold sells around $ 40.000. There might have been other more expensive casket available, but the comparison of casket prices is difficult because on the one hand the exact price which was paid for Michael Jackson's casket is unknown (probably 25.000) and on the other hand the Recommended Manufacturer's Retail Prices (RMRP) differ often from the prices charged by funeral homes, and these prices differ again considerably from the prices in Internet casket discount shops. Thus there is a big price variation for one and the same casket. At their maximum requested price, the following caskets might have been more expensive than Michael Jackson's "Promethean": - The "Marquis", a thermo-deposited bronze casket made by York, available at prices between $ 25.000 and 38.000. - Batesville's "Marsellus Masterpiece" mahogany luxury casket , which is offered at prices between 16.000 and 40.000 $. In spite of these alternatives, there can be no doubt that due to its striking gold polish finish making the casket seem to be made of pure gold, Michael Jackson's "Promethean" casket created the public impression that he was buried in the most expensive casket available.
I don't have access to specific images or current inventory from the Marsellus Casket Company. However, they are known for offering a range of high-end caskets, often featuring luxurious materials and intricate designs. For photos and detailed descriptions of their most expensive caskets, I recommend visiting their official website or contacting them directly.