This is called a wake. The body is placed in a special burial box called a casket or coffin.

VOA: special.2009.12.11

And notice how it's like the coffin's opening up and here comes Mozart's soprano line up here.

注意这段,多像棺材被打开啊,现在是莫扎特的高音部曲调线

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

It's a little mental picture of my body in a coffin.

想象我的身体在棺材里的画面。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Coffin that passes through lanes and streets, Through day and night with the great cloud darkening the land.

VOA: special.2009.12.31

And if they do not have a traditional coffin to sleep in during the day, they can find other answers, such as using a car.

VOA: special.2010.01.20

One object is a brightly painted coffin that is nearly four thousand years old.

VOA: special.2010.08.04

She chose six of the family's workmen, laborers,gardeners and stablemen to carry her coffin.

VOA: special.2010.07.18

The Aquino family refused a state funeral for Mrs.Aquino, which would have involved bringing her coffin to the presidential palace.

VOA: standard.2009.08.03

Soon,inside the packed church, Horne's coffin was solemnly brought in, and the congregation began to sing an old spiritual hymn dear to Horne herself.

VOA: standard.2010.05.15

The leading gondola carried a bright pink coffin symbolizing the death of the city.

VOA: standard.2009.11.14

"Turkey will always be secular," tens of thousands of people chanted as they followed the coffin of professor Turkan Saylan who died of breast cancer on Monday.

VOA: standard.2009.05.20

The most famous mummies are the Egyptian ones, which were carefully dried out with salts, treated with oils and resins and wrapped in linen before being placed in a coffin.

VOA: standard.2010.05.05

On November 14,a group of Venetians will carry a coffin symbolizing the death of the city down the Grand Canal in a procession of three boats and anyone else who wants to join in.

VOA: standard.2009.10.27

Mrs.Aquino's coffin, draped in the Philippine flag and laid over a bed of yellow flowers, was carried in a large truck Monday through a section of Manila's EDSA highway: the site of the "people power" movement she led in 1986 that overthrew the authoritarian Marcos government.

VOA: standard.2009.08.03