casket

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He was three years old when a photographer captured him saluting his father’s casket, and for many years, that was how most of America pictured him.

From Salon • Feb. 12, 2026

It had been buried in Ampthill Park inside a terracotta casket and sealed with wax to evade metal detectors.

From BBC • Nov. 28, 2025

His family says he ended his life as a private citizen whose dying wish—literally from his deathbed—was that Hichilema not even be allowed near his casket.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 4, 2025

His remains are to stay in a cemetery outside Paris, but officers carried a symbolic casket draped in a French flag into the former church on the capital's left bank under a cascade of applause.

From Barron's • Oct. 9, 2025

The short service ended, the casket was lowered into the cold ground.

From "American Gods" by Neil Gaiman