coffin

"It was only my father, my brother-in-law and our pastor who went in and put him in the coffin."

“We had to bury her in a closed coffin. She had no chance of surviving.”

“And that kind of codified the fact that you're paying your workers only through tips. And then tips became legal. The law had taken them into account in 1938 by excluding restaurant workers. That's sort of the nail in the coffin for ever getting a fair wage.”

The dancer drove the nail in the coffin of her future Olympic career, stating she would never compete again.

The family of mother-of-five Alice Webb, 33, walked behind her coffin which was pulled by two white horses as they made their way to St Mary's Church, in Kingswood.