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Coffin & Casket Plans

Northwoods Casket Co. (http://www.northwoodscasket.com/green-casket-diy-instructions.html) - Free

Casket by Northwoods Casket Co.

Northwoods Casket Co. has free plans and detailed assembly instructions available on their web site. With a good day's work, a few hand tools, and these instructions you can craft a very nice looking casket. This casket is also designed to remove all screws after the glue dries so you can use this casket in those Green and Natural Burial cemeteries who require caskets without any metal screws or nails in them.


Last Things: Alternatives at the End of Life (www.lastthings.net/how-to.html) - Free

The Quick Casket

While some coffins may take several days to make because panels must be glued up and allowed to set completely before continuing construction, here is a casket building plan that will only take a few hours. The "Quick Casket" illustrated in these instructions can be assembled in less than three hours for about $100 of #3 pine. These plans are available on their web site and can be downloaded in MS Word format.



MHP Caskets (www.casketfurniture.com/prod/casket_plans.html) - $134.95

Giovanni Casket Plan

MHP Caskets offers plans for four different wood caskets including The Giovanni Casket Plan (pictured), The Simple Pine Casket Plan, The Socrates Casket Plan, and The Martin Casket Plan. You can download each plan separately for $39.95 or you can buy all four of these immediately for $134.95. For an additional $15.00 you can have the printed version of all four plans shipped to you.


Rockler (www.rockler.com) - $14.95

Rockler Casket Plan

Rockler, a popular on-line woodworking tool supplier, sells detailed plans for a more contemporary casket design with spring-supported floor. Rockler also sells the hardware for this casket plan. Look for another book available at Rockler, Do-It-Yourself Coffins Book (Basic casket building at its best. The author's simple approach teaches the tools and techniques needed to build strong and beautiful coffins for pets and people.) This book sells for $14.95.






How to Build Your Own Coffin (http://www.squidoo.com/coffin) - Free

Here is another informational web site with links to casket and coffin building plans, books, videos, and more.

Each year, 22,500 cemeteries across the United States bury approximately 30 million board feet of hardwood caskets, 90,272 tons of steel caskets, 14,000 tons of steel vaults, 2700 tons of copper and bronze in caskets, 1,636,000 tons of reinforced concrete vaults, and 827,060 US gallons of embalming fluid--which most commonly includes formaldehyde.


Compiled from statistics by Casket and Funeral Association of America, Cremation Association of North America, Doric Inc., The Rainforest Action Network, and Mary Woodsen, Pre-Posthumous Society. Read more at Wikipedia.com on Natural Burial.