BEAR CREEK, N.C. — Don Byrne is only 45, but he's already planned his burial. He wants to be lowered into a shovel-dug grave in one of his own handmade pine coffins. Byrne lives off the grid on a ...

ALEXANDRIA, Minn. -- Just put me in a pine box. It's been said by many and sung by some, too. Roger Rosengren took that phrase to heart eight years ago when a fellow carpenter handed him a drawing and ...

Desmond Tutu, the anti-apartheid leader and Anglican archbishop emeritus, died last Sunday in Cape Town, South Africa. Despite his monumental status, he requested a humble sendoff in a pine coffin ...