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Ugly Coffin
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Ron2 | Report | 27 Jul 2015 16:28 |
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. |
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Dermot | Report | 27 Jul 2015 08:02 |
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'. |
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Denburybob | Report | 26 Jul 2015 20:58 |
One person makes it, another buys, for it, for someone who doesn't want it. |
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maggiewinchester | Report | 26 Jul 2015 19:04 |
That's interesting, Sharron. |
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Denburybob | Report | 26 Jul 2015 17:20 |
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. |
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Sharron | Report | 26 Jul 2015 16:35 |
Cardboard coffins cost more than cheap wooden ones. |
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GlasgowLass | Report | 26 Jul 2015 14:53 |
I was on holiday on the Isle of Harris last summer. |
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Mayfield | Report | 26 Jul 2015 12:23 |
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 |
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maggiewinchester | Report | 26 Jul 2015 11:31 |
Bob :-D |
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Denburybob | Report | 26 Jul 2015 10:54 |
I don't mind what a coffin looks like, so long as I am not looking at it from the inside. |
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Mayfield | Report | 26 Jul 2015 10:51 |
Like the Starship Enterprise Urn! |
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maggiewinchester | Report | 26 Jul 2015 10:35 |
Get the coffin of your dreams here: |
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Mayfield | Report | 26 Jul 2015 08:21 |
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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Cynthia | Report | 26 Jul 2015 08:07 |
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. |
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Dermot | Report | 26 Jul 2015 07:16 |
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. ;-) |
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Guinevere | Report | 26 Jul 2015 05:57 |
It was probably a cardboard coffin decorated by friends and relatives. There is a trend to "natural" funerals and burials. These create new woodlands. |
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Purple **^*Sparkly*^** Diamond | Report | 26 Jul 2015 05:07 |
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. |
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GlasgowLass | Report | 26 Jul 2015 00:45 |
I was driving to the dentist on Tuesday and I passed a funeral cortege at a roundabout. |
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