ALEXANDRIA, Minn. -- Just put me in a pine box. It's been said by many and sung by some, too. Roger Rosengren took that phrase to heart eight years ago when a fellow carpenter handed him a drawing and ...

Karen and Patrick Kilby make caskets at their woodworking shop in Ottertail, Minn. The family-run business, A Simple Pine Box, makes individually handcrafted caskets. Karen Kilby displays the cherry ...

KANSAS CITY, MO. - Just a few days after Pope John Paul II’s funeral last week, Bev McGill received a call from a woman in Parkville, Mo. The woman was pre-arranging her funeral and had to know: Where ...

Funny, isn’t it, how the living often get squeamish about how our remains will be secured as we enter the afterlife? Whether it’s an urn for those who choose cremation or a casket, a lot of people are ...

Three years ago, as he was losing his fight with cancer, Neil Enslow's father made a request that would change the son's life. The elder Enslow, the longtime manager of a large lumber yard in Garden ...