Any monk that dies at Mount St Bernard will end up in the monastery's communal coffin. The coffin comes out for funerals and is then returned to the abbey's attic. In accordance with Trappist burial rites, monks are buried without a coffin. The hood of the cowl is folded over the face and the body is lowered into the ground where it is received into the arms of an infirmarian, who arranges it in a final loving service. The abbot places the first shovelful of earth on the body, after which his brothers fill the grave by shoveling earth onto the body's feet, letting it gradually encompass the body, after which all withdraw.