Cremations

[paulz]

What's the name of the thing they stand a coffin on at a Cremation? At the end; it's then either lowered into the ground, slides off through the back or is covered by curtains? I thought it was a sarcophagus, but my thesaurus shows that as another name for coffin. Is it catacombe? or is that a tomb?

[brawburd]

It is called the catafalque.

[Gef]

Barbecue?