A monk makes a pine casket at New Melleray Abbey near Dubuque, Iowa. Courtesy photo. Trappist Caskets cost between $1,200 and $1,500.

Don Byrne makes pine coffins by hand on his homestead in Bear Creek, N.C., where he lives with his wife and two children including Niko, 4.

Rand Herzberg builds pine caskets in his Red Lodge shop. Herzberg, the owner of Cowboy Coffin and Pine Box Co., started the business with the notion that people and pet owners should have the ...

Coen’s one-man company, Simple Pine Box, sells caskets he builds by hand for $650. His father’s funeral convinced Coen of the need, after his family was charged $1,000 just to rent a casket ...

Caskets typically retail for anywhere from about $1,000 for your basic pine model to as much as $20,000 for the fancy brass numbers with elaborate handles and lid paintings. And you only see it ...

Pahiki caskets run from $2,800 for a Norfolk pine model to $4,800 for monkeypod. The median price for a metal burial casket is $2,400 and $1,000 for a cremation casket, ...

ALEXANDRIA, Minn. -- Just put me in a pine box. It's been said by many and sung by some, too. Roger Rosengren took that phrase to heart eight years ago when a fellow carpenter handed him a drawing ...

The caskets are made at Kyle's shop in Black Hawk from wood harvested locally. He buys his pine from a company in Custer and also makes a cedar casket from wood out of Newell.

Pine used in Nadeau’s caskets carries the subtle yet distinctive blue streaks characteristic of beetle-killed wood — a byproduct of a fungus left in the trees by the insects.

FREDERICTON, New Brunswick – Fiddlehead Casket Company has added a modern-day twist to the old pine box. The firm’s caskets are manufactured and shipped ready-to-assemble for the dearly ...

In response to the coronavirus, 22 Trappist monks living in New Melleray Abbey in eastern Iowa, about 13 miles from Dubuque, decided to offer pine caskets to financially strapped families with ...