Abstract: A method of manufacturing paper coffin for use in cremation including the steps of forming a box and a cover for a coffin from prepared pulp by vacuum molding, drying the molded box and cover, compressing walls of the box and of the cover in a die casting machine to consolidate them and give them enhanced structural strength, and painting the box and the cover so that the coffin has beautified outer surfaces. Dies for compressing the walls of the box and the cover may be provided with patterns so as to form raised or depressed patterns on outer wall surfaces of the coffin.