The "coffins" aren't coffins at all, according to Lacey. Instead, they are burial vaults, "the outer container for caskets," Lacey said, placed in the ground before the coffin to protect the coffin and maintain level ground above. There are currently 50,000 of these burial vaults on the property, according to Lacey.
The coffin in the patent Doob posted is flat with the lid at the top, sensible to allow easy access to the contents and to help stacking when full. If the burial liner was to be used for a body the rounded shape with a much smaller flat area wouldn't make much sense for stacking, and even less sense if it were actually the "bottom".
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While this is superficially similar to the grave liners, it's actually quite different in that: It's a lot smaller, more like a regular casket It actually has a lid which goes on top, rather than a flat base. Bottom line: The government is not stockpiling sealed coffins for Ebola victims. They are just grave liners.