How did the burial "COFFIN" get its name?
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Origin of the Name. The name COFFIN derives from the Greek cophínos, via Latin, Italian and French words - all of which mean a container' of some sort. ... theories are advanced regarding the origin of the family surname Coffin, or Coffyn, as was the ... Allen Coffin, Esq., says, "Coffin is a word of Hebrew origin signifying a small ...www.drwilliams.org/iDoc/Web-181.htm
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wake\na vigil held over a corpse the night before burial; theres no weeping at an Irish wake .It's called a wake because the mourners stay awake during the night, originally to watch and pray over the corpse \n\n'Wake' is the native English equivalent of the Latin-derived 'vigil'. It was formerly used of all kinds of religious vigils, but is now generally confined to funerals.
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The term is actually a reference to the size of a grave... 8 feet long, and 6 feet deep... hence it refers to something being "dead."\n\nIn the restaurant biz, and many other contexts, when someone says "86" something, it means that they've run out, or they want to stop it, etc.
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Yes.  A corpse, even the ashes of a corpse, impart uncleaness. See Numbers 19:11-16. Corpse uncleaness is even for something as little as a human bone or grave.\n\nBecause of this, the custom was to paint the surface of graves white so that people would not stray into that area. Recall the comment about "whitewashed sepulchres"
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How does the Hearse driver acquire a corpse?Better check.
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To a Reincarnationist it means someone is walking over the grave of one of your past bodies. To everyone else it means someone walks over the place where your body will be buried. I've heard the phrase in connection with getting a chill for no apparent reason: "Brrr... someone must have walked over my grave just then."
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Well, I think sometimes there are more made and some made bigger. Also, I believe that after a few hundred years, when so many people have died, they just re-use the graves. There are a lot of reserved graves in cemetaries. Still quite a few spaces left. Lots of people get cremated so they take up less space and often, people choose to be buried in the same grave as a loved one, sometimes more than one.
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it is in a shape of a casket
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burying and burning r the common practices.however the parsis(zorashtrians) lower the dead body into a well and the eagles come and eat it.sometimes the body is beaten with shoes so it attracts the birds.\nin the harappan days people used to bury the dead bodies intheir courtyard with ornaments,weapons and food.
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Probably an urban legend. Every town has a "Rock and Roll Graveyard" or a "Resurrection Mary" or a "Goatman's Bridge." Google had this to say on the subject...
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Human remains covered in resin and cloth were found inside a 5,000-year-old cedar wood coffin at Sakkara near Cairo, Egypt. \nThe coffin had been placed in a tomb thought to date from 3100 to 2890 BC under Egypt's 1st Dynasty.
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I saw a program on funeral practices the other day. The preserving of bodies is centuries old but in the U.S. the Civil War was pivotal in its use of embalming-it preserved the remains of soldiers so they could be shipped home. Abraham Lincoln's funeral was key in introducing embalming on a wide scale. More info:\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embalming
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Hmm...Sound like you are talking about Cahokia mounds.  Small hills built by the Cahokia Indians, believed to be for burial purposes.  \n\nNow here is the tricky part...there is a town in the area named Cahokia...but the mounds are not there.  The mounds are in Fairmont City.
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In the 1500s in UK, those with money had plates made of pewter. Food with high acid content caused some of the lead to leach onto the food, causing lead poisoning death. This happened most often with tomatoes, so for the next 400 years or so, tomatoes were considered poisonous. Lead cups were used to drink ale or whiskey and this combination would sometimes knock the imbibers out for a couple of days. Someone walking along the road would take them for dead and prepare them for burial. They were laid out on the kitchen table for a couple of days and the family would gather around and eat and drink and wait and see if they would wake up. \n\nHence the custom of holding a wake.\n\nEngland is old and small and the local folks started running out of places to bury people. So they would dig up coffins and would take the bones to a bone-house, and re-use the grave. When re-opening these coffins, 1 out of 25 coffins were found to have scratch marks on the inside and they realized they had been burying people alive. So they would tie a string on the wrist of the corpse, thread it through the coffin and up through the ground and tie it to a bell. Someone would have to sit out in the graveyard all night (the graveyard shift.) to listen for the bell; thus, someone could be saved by the bell or was considered a dead ringer.
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Official coffin dodger here. I'm an ancient 47! Better to be a coffin dodger than a coffin stuffer.
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whats made by man, never used by him,never he sells it and the person that is using it doesn't know he is.?\nIt's coffin
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Wondering who they'd buried in his grave.