What happens to the coffin at a cremation?

Question

Is it burnt with the body, or emptied and reused? If it is burnt, then surely we should save some trees and reuse....?

Answer 1

It's burnt

Answer 2

Silly, the coffin disappears.

Answer 3

don't know.

Answer 4

Typically, if a cremation is to be done. The coffin used for the wake is rented.

Answer 5

a body is not burned in a coffin.  They are put into a cardboard box that is burned along with the body.  If a family elects to have a loved ones body viewed in the funeral home before the body is cremated, they will usually use a type of bed to do so.  Most people that choose cremation do so for the cost factor, so they do not have a traditional coffin.

Answer 6

burnt

Answer 7

If there is a viewing, then a rental "casket" is used.  There is sometimes a decorative fabric or cardboard inner liner with which the corpse is handled when transfered to the crematory oven.  

There are some very mundane and less than ceremonious tasks that are handled by mortuary and crematory staff that would mortify the public.

Answer 8

If the family purchased a cremation casket, it is cremated with the body, it is not re-used.  Cremation caskets are generally made of a fiberboard material and look nice but are inexpensive.  If it is to be a direct cremation, the bodies are placed in a cardboard container and cremated in that.  I have not a clue what on earth the answerer above is talking about when he said the things we do would mortify the public.  Clearly he knows nothing about the funeral business.  The deceased are treated with the utmost respect.

Answer 9

In New Zealand they remove the body from it and it is reused.