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That music accompanies us from birth to death is underscored by the giant guitar-case-shaped casket, “For a Musician,” produced by Ghanaian artist Paa Joe in 2025.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026

Video footage showed mourners pushing and shoving each other to get close to the casket as it was carried by hand through the mausoleum's halls.

From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026

Traditional leaders and some locals wanted to burn the compromised casket.

From Barron's ● May 24, 2026

Women carry the casket of Razieh Zamani, a 34-year-old teacher at the Shajareh Tayyebeh school, toward the Minab cemetery.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 6, 2026

Thin black veils covered the lolas’ faces as they clutched their rosaries and wept loudly over his casket.

From "The House That Lou Built" by Mae Respicio

Crucially, it held on to its stockpile of nearly 1,000 pounds of near weapons-grade uranium—half of it buried in caskets in a tunnel deep under its Isfahan nuclear site, according to the U.N. atomic agency.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 12, 2026

When Old Glory was planted on the moon in 1969, it had already draped the caskets of tens of thousands of soldiers who died in Vietnam.

From Salon ● Jan. 3, 2026

Indian authorities said an inscription on one of the caskets unearthed with the treasure confirmed the contents -- which include bone fragments -- as "relics of the Buddha".

From Barron's ● Jan. 3, 2026

Saeed and Tia were buried the day after they died, by Rihab’s father and uncles, in temporary wooden caskets in an unmarked grave in Dahieh.

From BBC ● Dec. 1, 2024

We all talked nervously, not looking at the stack of silver caskets that were being loaded on.

From "Fallen Angels" by Walter Dean Myers