Economy coffin

The body was carried in the coffin to the gravesite where it would be dropped into the grave through folding doors on the base.

He was a keen proponent of natural law and adhered less strictly to Christian dogma than his predecessors.

He introduced legally mandated periods between death and burial and required examination of the deceased by a medical professional.

[3] Similar coffins had sometimes been used in the medieval period during times of high mortality such as plague epidemics.

[7] The coffin proved to be one of the most controversial of all Joseph's reforms, receiving considerable resistance from the general public, the church and his own government officials.