what is the scientific fact for the use of coffins?

Answer 1

A scientific explanation for the use of coffins is easy when you review the physical purpose of such an item.

Culturally, the coffin has been in use since pre-history. There is speculation that the purpose of an enclosure for the dead originated from the need to give the lifeless a safe and respectable place to dwell since the body no longer funtioned. Many ancient cultures believed that the body, if properly cared for, went on with the spirit to an afterlife. Some cultures went to great lengths to prepare and protect the physical body for the afterlife experience. A coffin served an especially important protective role in such cultures.

When it became clear that bodies decomposed with time, it also served a protective purpose for the living. In the earlier civilizations, a dead body not only presented obvious problems with its decomposure, but it was also believed that it attracted evil, most likely in the fact that decomposition has always held a negative connotation, for obvious reasons. A coffin placed a tangible barrior between the dead and the living, provided comfort at least for the living. For many, it also provided comfort for the deceased body, a need that the living saw as a necessary way to show love and respect for the departed.

The coffins used in modern day america were a result of an industry that arose out of the needs of the living to prevent disease and ease the morning process. The modern concept of the combination of a crypt and a coffin was thought necessary because of a fear of contamination when the fluids of the dead seeped out of the decaying body into the earth and possibly the local ground water. It has since been suggested that much of the complicated crypt/coffin requirements were overkill, encouraged by an industry that made considerable profits on such products.

Today, the main purpose of a coffin does seem to lie with the living, providing them a way to deal with the grief of loosing a loved one.

Answer 2

people use to be put in nothing more than a simple pine wood box. but over time people choose to decorate these boxes up more and more and have evolved into todays caskets.

if you see how they are made....they are actually still made very simply like a pine wood box but just has decorations screwed on and material stapled to the interior.

funerals and all are for the living....so they can have some way of saying goodbye.

Answer 3

Those that are making them are not using them yet and those that use them don't know that they are using them. How is that for a fact.