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Today's word is sarcophagus.
As defined by Merriam-Webster:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sarcophagus

Did You Know?

Body-eating coffins might sound like the stuff of horror films, but "flesh-eating stone" does play a role in the etymology of sarcophagus. That creepy-sounding phrase is a literal translation of "sarkophagos," the Greek word that underlies our English term. It's not clear whether the Romans truly believed that a certain type of limestone from the region around Troy would dissolve flesh (and thus was desirable for making coffins). That assertion came from Roman scholar Pliny the Elder, but he also reported such phenomena as dog-headed people and elephants who wrote Greek. But theres no doubt that the ancient Greek word for the limestone, "sarkophagos," was formed by combining sark-, meaning "flesh," with a derivative of "phagein," a verb meaning "to eat."

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I thought the quoted bit said booty eating coffins. Wtf. CE has gotten to me.

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Osama Bin Ladin's body was placed in a sarcophagus and was sent into the ocean to find new wild life.

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