Mary Flynn's blue eyes brighten when she talks about the natural pine coffin she made for herself and the exact spot she wants to be buried one day. "I keep my casket in my [home] studio and I've ...
Why is a body placed in a shroud and then a pine box? Why does the body need to be buried quickly? In Catholic tradition, there isn’t a time frame for interment, just that the body be blessed.
The casket, called a “split bamboo style coffin,” was made by hollowing out a Japanese umbrella pine log, measuring more than 5.3 meters in length and 64 to 70 centimeters in diameter.