A Kiss-themed casket inside a Til We Meet Again memorial store. (Til We Meet Again) When U.S. courts this week cleared the way for St. Joseph Abbey monks to sell their handcrafted caskets on the ...

John Hurd, owner of the Casket Store in Auburn, N.Y., said Americans have been too willing to pay for funerals without questioning the costs.

The national maximum for a metal burial casket is $7,400 and $9,360 for a wood burial casket, per additional NFDA data shared with Retail Dive. The national minimum cost is $300 for both types.

Titan Casket's online sales disrupting funeral industry 04:37. Christo Ayoub was the kind of person who believed his treasures were stored in Heaven. "His main concern was to just bring light to ...