Only if the family is stupid enough to pay for one.
As far as I know, there is a requirement for a cardboard container, which has a nominal cost and a coffin sans metal fixtures can be purchased, for a price.
Bottom line is: morticians and funeral home owners/directors absolutely screw over the living, playing on the grief of the family, making them feel cheap and guilty if they don't spring for the most expensive services available.
I suppose that includes a coffin to be cremated in and embalming prior to cremation.
It's all about the dollar, donchya know?
And the US funeral directors/owners and morticians are the greediest.
You know, I've seen stores that sell coffins. I suppose they deliver. Otherwise that could be interesting (trying to carry one to the funeral home yourself in the back of a pickup for example)
No they don't. Morticians have to publish prices and can be hauled before the state mortuary board for impropriety if they presssure families.
If a family feels pressured, it's because they, themselves, are feeling guilty about not providing the most expensive service possible.
If you want to make sure you don't leave your family with lots of unexpected expenses, arrange and pay for your funeral in advance. They're generally cheaper, and you spend what you want.
You can buy a cloth-covered pine box for $200, specify no embalming, and no service, and get by for under $1200.
The $100 cost part doesn't include the jointer that I needed to build the box. ;>) Any excuse to buy a tool....
/johnny