1.   A federal law requires funeral homes to serve customers even if they have bought coffins elsewhere.

2.   Most of the people who buy coffins online do so when a family member has just died or is about to die, Frost said.

3.   People rarely buy coffins to have around just in case.

4.   Grieving members of the Liu family bought a coffin and brought the corpse from the hospital to their home, the paper said.

5.   Local civic organizations were helping with burial arrangements and many people in this impoverished southern African country had gathered money together to help buy coffins for the victims.

6.   She is buying the coffin herself.

7.   Sometimes it was just to buy a coffin for someone who had died.

8.   But her concern to facilitate the task for her heirs stopped short of buying a coffin.