Some of the migrant labourers are going home in caskets.
The problem has not been insurmountable so far; but so far operations have largely been in places with mixed Shia and Sunni populations.Although the Hashid al-Shabi is careful to portray itself as nationalist the coffins in Najaf are draped in Iraq's red, white and black standard rather than the black flag covering other caskets in the mosque it is almost entirely Shia.
Some visitors will want to compare the medieval objects in the Design Museum, among them banners, small caskets and decorative earthenware, to the magnificent medieval paintings and sculptures in the nearby National Museum of Catalan Art.
The same is true in a photograph of dead anarchists from the Paris Commune, also in caskets.
Members of the Dalton gang, laid out in caskets after the deadly failure of their bank robbery in Coffeyville, Kansas, still look oddly thrilling.
However, these subtly enamelled caskets, containing fragments rather than entire bodies, are much smaller than Roman tombs.
There are Virgin and Child altar-statues; such personal treasures as combs, caskets and mirror cases carved with themes related to courtly romances; memento mori skulls and heads; biblical narratives.
Rules are often sold on the basis of safety but all too often serve as nothing more than a barrier to entry to the profession, raising prices to consumers and eroding competition—and standing between willing buyers and the monk-made cypress caskets they'd like to purchase.
There are rows of pull-out racks for flat works; a central display celebrates early donors; vitrines show examples of gifts that range from fossils to finely engraved caskets.
Undertakers have become "morticians" and coffins "caskets".
Throughout the Middle Ages, both secular and ecclesiastical objects, such as chalices, cups, reliquaries, caskets, crosiers (a staff carried by bishops and abbots as a symbol of office), and spoons, were elaborately enamelled.
