General Chat

I was driving to the dentist on Tuesday and I passed a funeral cortege at a roundabout.

In the back of the hearse, was the most gawdy looking coffin that I've ever seen.
It looked like crdboard that had been covered in a very old fashioned peach and pink wallpaper
It also had huge pink floral trellis design running through the centre
The top of the casket was covered in the same pink flowers.....but of course they were fresh ones.
I guess that it was an older person who must have loved those pink flowers but, oh dear. It was really ugly!
Each to their own I suppose!

Well if the person inside didn't prearrange their funeral and choose such a gaudy coffin, their nearest and dearest must have been determined no one would miss the funeral cortege.

It was probably a cardboard coffin decorated by friends and relatives. There is a trend to "natural" funerals and burials. These create new woodlands.

The ravenous worms don’t mind a bit. Apart from metal coffins, the cold slithering worms will make easy chewing of any wooden coffin with their desire to consume its contents. ;-)

There is also the trend for 'dead trendy' coffins.........made from all sorts of materials - cardboard, bamboo, wicker etc. They just biodegrade quicker than wooden ones. Presumably they burn faster too.

The words "Earth to earth, ashes to ashes" are applicable to us all in the end - however we are conveyed. :-)

How about appropriate coffins like those who have died from a bad diet, a giant Pizza box or Bargain bucket. Any other ideas maybe something for men it their 80's or 90's with buxom 20 something wives? :-D

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Personally, a cardboard coffin would do me.
I can't see the point in wasting good money on something no one can really appreciate!! :-D

Like the Starship Enterprise Urn!

I don't mind what a coffin looks like, so long as I am not looking at it from the inside.

Bob :-D

Used to work with an old guy anytime we passed a hearse he's comment was "Another poor B****r who can't smell the flowers" always comes to mind when I see a funeral thinking what Wally would say. :-D :-D

I was on holiday on the Isle of Harris last summer.
Our B&B owner was the only male landlord in the area.
He was also the local car mechanic as well as the only.... undertaker!

He had spent his winter creating a new casket which was finished in Harris Tweed.
It was kept in his garage and didn't look too bad .
It was certainly a heck of a lot better than the really ugly thing that I saw on Tuesday.

Cardboard coffins cost more than cheap wooden ones.

In the spirit of no corner knowingly uncut, I had the cheapest possible coffin for Fred, naturally, and asked about cardboard ones.

I know a bloke who owns a woodyard and is very handy. He has made himself a coffin, and I am reliably informed that he sometimes has a kip in it.

That's interesting, Sharron.
Have to admit to not actually looking for a coffin yet!!

One person makes it, another buys, for it, for someone who doesn't want it.

Very few complaints are ever received from coffin occupants. I suspect the deceased has other things to worry about like the real meaning of 'eternity'.

I've stipulated a cardboard coffin for me. My attitude is "Why Waste Money on the Dead?" Also said no flowers, only one car and that to be the hearse. Everyone can use their own car to get to crem.