Whois & Analysis for batesville.com

Batesville Casket Company is a leading manufacturer of caskets and cremation urns.

The company is a subsidiary of Hillenbrand, Inc., and is headquartered in Batesville, Indiana.

An urn is a vase, often with a cover, that usually has a somehat narrowed neck above a rounded body and a footed pedestal.

Describing a vessel as an "urn", as opposed to a vase or other terms, generally reflects its use rather than any particular shape or origin.

The term is especially often used for funerary urns, vessels used in burials, either to hold the cremated ashes or as grave-goods, but is used in many other contexts; in catering large vessels for serving tea or coffee are often called "tea-urns", even when they are metal cylinders of purely functional design.

Large sculpted vases are often called urns, whether placed outdoors, in gardens or as architectural ornaments on buildings, or kept inside.

The term death care industry refers to companies and organizations that provide services related to death: funerals, cremation or burial, and memorials.

This includes for example funeral homes, coffins, crematoria, cemeteries, and headstones.

Burial or interment is the ritual act of placing a dead person or animal, sometimes with objects, into the ground.

This is accomplished by excavating a pit or trench, placing the deceased and objects in it, and covering it over.

Humans have been burying their dead for at least 100,000 years.

Burial is often seen as indicating respect for the dead.

It has been used to prevent the odor of decay, to give family members closure and prevent them from witnessing the decomposition of their loved ones, and in many cultures it has been seen as a necessary step for the deceased to enter the afterlife or to give back to the cycle of life.

A Casket or jewelry box is a container that is usually smaller than a chest, and in the past were typically decorated.