Abstract: A casket is provided including a one-piece upwardly opening tub or base and a pair of hingedly supported head and foot end covers. The head and foot end covers include horizontally opposing marginal portions extending between opposite sides of the tub, the tub upper marginal edge includes an inner peripheral portion having a peripherally continuous seal structure supported therefrom and an outer peripheral portion having a substantially peripherally continuous magnet structure supported therefrom. The marginal portions of the cover overlying the marginal portions of the tub are constructed of ferrous material for magnetic attraction to the magnetic material supported from the tub and the horizontally opposing marginal portions of the head and foot covers include coacting seal structure for forming a fluid tight seal therebetween when the covers are in the closed positions.