As the President of the Senate, Mansfield delivered the lead eulogy on November 24, 1963, witnessed by Jacqueline Kennedy, as President Kennedy's casket lay in state in the Capitol rotunda: " And so she took a ring from her finger and placed it in his hands, and kissed him, and closed the lid of a coffin.

In the United States, a body ready to be cremated must be placed in a container for cremation, which can be a simple corrugated-cardboard box or a wooden casket ( coffin ).

Bodies are often buried wrapped in a shroud or placed in a coffin ( or in some cases, a casket ).

The Hand resided in a casket that made it resemble a coffin.

His body is buried in one coffin and his head in a separate casket.

A bier is a stand on which a corpse, coffin, or casket containing a corpse, is placed to lie in state or to be carried to the grave.

In modern times, the corpse is rarely carried on the bier without being first placed in a coffin or casket, though the coffin or casket is sometimes kept open.

Biers are generally smaller than the coffin or casket they support for reasons of appearance.

While hundreds gathered to see the casket depart the funeral home, only four men were seen to remove their hats for the passing of the coffin.

Her casket was placed above ground beside the coffin of her husband in the lower level crypt of the presidential tomb at Lake View Cemetery in Cleveland, Ohio.

Despite the coffin being built with wheels to allow easy transport, and a sloping approach being dug to the grave, it took 20 men almost half an hour to drag his casket into the trench, in a newly opened burial ground to the rear of St Martin's Church.

The coffin is covered with a flag, and is carried feet first on deck by the casket bearers.

Despite her emphatic pre-need planning request for a closed casket, her widower insisted that her body be on view, with a glass bubble over the open part of the coffin.

WWF officials worked feverishly to break the casket open, finally revealing Warrior's seemingly lifeless body, and the torn fabric inside of the coffin indicating Warrior's desperate struggle to get out.

A catafalque is a raised bier, soapbox, or similar platform, often movable, that is used to support the casket, coffin, or body of the deceased during a funeral or memorial service.

File: Zembiec coffin and pallbearers. jpg | A casket team carries Major Douglas A. Zembiec, former commander of E Company, 2nd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment from the Naval Academy Chapel in Annapolis, Maryland following a funeral service held in his honor.

File: McKinley Capitol casket. jpg | An honor guard carrying the coffin of William McKinley up the east steps of the United States Capitol, 1901.

A pall-bearer is one of several funeral participants who helps carry the casket of a deceased person from a religious or memorial service or viewing either directly to a cemetery or mausoleum, or to and from the hearse which carries the coffin.

She laid her head down on the casket, before breaking down and crying ; The Washington Post described Mrs. Reagan as having been " stoic through nearly a week of somber rituals " but she " surrendered to her grief after being handed the flag that had covered her husband's coffin.

With the 1849 Constitution, anointing was discontinued and since then the crown jewels have only been used on the occasion of a deceased monarch's castrum doloris (' camp of woe ') where the crown is placed on the coffin, the other regalia laid at casket's foot, and the casket surrounded by the three lions.

* Burial of the entire body in the earth, often within a coffin or casket ( also referred to as inhumation )

It is well for us to remember that a wreath on a coffin never can atone for flowers withheld while they still can be enjoyed.

All of Poland is a coffin.

A wry trick of others is to request the reader to get off their resting place, inasmuch as the reader would have to be standing on the ground above the coffin to read the inscription.

At the conclusion of the service, an Ardas is said before the coffin is taken to the cremation site.

A hearse is a funerary vehicle used to carry a coffin from a church or funeral home to a cemetery.

However, it is unclear whether Millet changed his mind on the meaning of the painting, or even if the shape actually is a coffin.

Oswald's head was interred in Durham Cathedral together with the remains of Cuthbert of Lindisfarne ( a saint with whom Oswald became posthumously associated, although the two were not associated in life ; Cuthbert became bishop of Lindisfarne more than forty years after Oswald's death ) and other valuables in a quickly made coffin, where it is generally believed to remain, although there are at least four other claimed heads of Oswald in continental Europe.

Varney is named after the original Varney The Vampire and spends his nights sleeping in a coffin.

After Sheikh Taissir Tamimi discovered that Arafat was buried improperly and in a coffin — which is not in accordance with Islamic law — Arafat was reburied on the morning of 13 November at around 3: 00 am.

* May 5 – Forty men burn their draft cards at the University of California, Berkeley, and a coffin is marched to the Berkeley Draft Board.

* May 17 – Charles Chaplin's coffin is found some 15 km from the cemetery from which it was stolen, near Lake Geneva.

Although the young woman's coffin was robbed in antiquity, the other remained in situ and undisturbed, and is now on display at the site.

In the year 264, a coffin containing the body of Bartholomew is washed upon the beach of Lipari, with the result that Bartholomew is immediately elected the Patron Saint of the Aeolian Islands.

The St Cuthbert Gospel is among the objects later recovered from St Cuthbert's coffin, which is also an important artefact.

St Cuthbert's Society, a college of Durham University, is named after him and is located only a short walk from the coffin of the saint at Durham Cathedral.

The coffin is draped with her personal Royal Standard of the United Kingdom # Consorts of the British monarch | standard.

Early pies were much larger than those consumed today, and oblong shaped ; the jurist John Selden presumed that " the coffin of our Christmas-Pies, in shape long, is in Imitation of the Cratch crib ", although writer T. F. Thistleton-Dyer thought Selden's explanation unlikely, as " in old English cookery books the crust of a pie is generally called ' the coffin.

" In 698 Cuthbert was reburied at Lindisfarne in the decorated oak coffin now usually meant by St Cuthbert's coffin, though he was to have many more coffins.

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In the United States, coffins are usually covered by a grave liner or a burial vault, which prevents the coffin from collapsing under the weight of the earth or floating away during a flood.

The deceased lies in state, usually in an open coffin flanked by female relatives dressed in black, their heads sometimes wreathed in kawakawa leaves, who take few and short breaks.

" Cuthbert was reburied in the decorated oak coffin now usually meant by St Cuthbert's coffin, though he was to have many more coffins, and it is thought likely that the book was produced for this occasion, and may well have been placed in his coffin at this point.

The losses from the Battle of Britain are usually quite minor but may be the nail in Britain's coffin, especially if an overenthusiastic British player has lost too many units in France in 1940.

They usually carry a coffin as their trademark protest prop.

The coffin usually has two locks, the key to one is kept by the Capuchin Guardian of the crypt, the other is kept in the Schatzkammer of the Hofburg palace in Vienna.

Within the coffin, the body usually has had the organs removed as a necessary part of the embalming process for its display before the funeral.

This hanging grave usually lasts for years, until the ropes rot and the coffin falls to the ground.

When the equipage is used in this way for a state funeral in Britain, the coffin is usually placed on a platform mounted on top of the gun and referred to as being carried on a gun carriage.

The decorations on the coffin usually fit the decease ’ s status.

A coffin corner refers to the corner of the playing field just in front of the end zone, usually from the 5-yard line to the goal line.

Arthrodesis of the coffin joint is usually not performed due to the location of the joint ( within the hoof ) and because the coffin joint needs some mobility for the horse to move correctly ( unlike the pastern joint, which is very still ).