Andy Dingley wrote:


There are coffin lid clips allow this. They're a pressed steel
turnbuckle that fit onto the top edge of the casket section. Some have
the thumbnail wings on _both_ sides of the wood - I've never found out
why.

Either to assuage old fears of being encoffinated when merely tired and
shagged out after the human equivalent of a long flight from the fiords...

....or so that Dr Who monstas can rise from their caskets on cue!