Karen and Patrick Kilby make caskets at their woodworking shop in Ottertail, Minn. The family-run business, A Simple Pine Box, makes individually handcrafted caskets. Karen Kilby displays the cherry ...

Working on hand-crafted caskets gives Jude Collins a lot of time to think. She sometimes muses about life, death and her heritage, particularly from her maternal grandfather, who many years ago owned ...

When Maddie Christine Brokop learned she was dying, she invited her friends to help weave the tray she will be buried in.

A custom casket maker in Texas is helping the victims and their families in the aftermath of Tuesday’s mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas. Trey Ganem, 50, of SoulShine Industries ...

Nearly one week after the deadly school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, victims killed in the massacre are being laid to rest. Nineteen of those killed during the massacre at Robb Elementary School – 18 ...

A monastery that specializes in making caskets is offering its product, free of charge, to poor people whose loved ones have died from the coronavirus. The New Melleray Abbey, a Trappist monastery ...

The walnut planks used to make Caroline Found’s casket grew for 120 years in a quiet northeast Iowa forest. Tucked away behind a hulking limestone monastery, the tree was prayed over by the monks of ...