Many can't differentiate between a coffin and a casket. Some say coffin is for women while casket is for men. Back in the days our forefathers used coffin to buried the poor while casket to buried the rich. Also, They used coffin to buried wayward people. According to our forefathers, coffin is for the people that have a low status in the community while casket is recommended for high influence person.
However the two serve as a competitive. Both can be used to buried male and female. Coffin is not regarded for the poor neither casket for the rich it just a matter of choice. In today world, many can't differentiate between a casket and coffin. People mistakes casket to be coffin and coffin to be casket. Some say you can either call it casket or coffin. Coffin is rare while casket is common.
Many people often confuse the two.
What you are looking at below is not a coffin.
It is a casket.
Coffins:
Have 6 sides. They are designed to taper off at the bottom to accommodate the feet.
Originally they were used because they were seen as more efficient uses of wood.
Caskets became popular over the past 200 years because they are seen as being slightly less morbid —the 4-sided shape being less reminiscent of a dead body.
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