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

VOA: special.2009.12.11

That is what really got me started." Starting from this guitar made out of a cardboard box and fishing line,and this one, bearing serial number "one."

VOA: standard.2010.07.06

And his mom sent this little box and it said 'John's Black Pearls.'

VOA: standard.2010.05.31

"Those are the complaints that we are actually dealing with at this point in time." VOA News asked Kippen if the on-site investigations of massive ballot box stuffing and other acts of election fraud will take weeks or,as some predict, months to complete.

VOA: standard.2009.09.15

Asked at a press conference in Kabul why the criteria for quarantined votes has changed from 600 per ballot box to more than 1,000,chief electoral officer Daoud Ali Najafi says the ECC just made this decision and the Afghan government's Independent Election Commission agreed to it.

VOA: standard.2009.09.12