Fabulous Coffins

[Fnaar]

She was only the undertaker's daughter, but anyone cadaver...

... but she wasn't afraid of a stiffy

 

[Theseus]

My father used to be a member of Parkstone sailing club. He told me that one of the the old members who died when he was a lad requested that his ashes be loaded into the starting gun and fired across the main starting line as part af the annual regatta. This line was known from then on as "Stan's Line", although I do not know if this tradition has carried on.

As for my father, he asked for his ashes to be scattered at Old Harry Rocks, since apparently he lost a pair of underwear there when he was courting my mum. I had the honour of throwing him over the cliff.

 

[Night Train]

Within a week of my death I want to be placed in a spherical coffin made from the fiberous stems of the tall and indiginous plants growing on the fifth discovered planet orbiting the star we know as Schedar in the constellation of Cassiopeia. The coffin should placed in orbit about Schedar at a distance of around 800AU.

I am willing to stay healthy, active and retain my physical and mental abilities until technology catches up with my requirements.

 

[Globalti]

Mrs Gti used to spend a lot of time on the M6 as she was a regional sales manager. She wants her ashes to be put into a salt cellar attached to the bumper of a car and sprinkled from Leicestershire to Gretna.

 

[ColinJ]

Mrs Gti used to spend a lot of time on the M6 as she was a regional sales manager. She wants her ashes to be put into a salt cellar attached to the bumper of a car and sprinkled from Leicestershire to Gretna.

Does she know that she wants that or are you just guessing?

 

[Jezston]

My Dad was a keen atheist, so we knew it was in his interests to just burn his body and bin the remains. Bit of a waste of a good (and expensive) coffin, though, although the sight of a group of undertakers chucking his naked corpse into the incinerator might have troubled the old dears at his funeral!

 

[Night Train]

That's our view here too.
When my brother died were struggled to get the cheapest coffin available. Everyone semed to expect us to get the most fabulously expensive and ornate thing and then got upset when I said 'Why? We're only going to burn him in it!'

If I am going to be incinerated then I want to be in a recycled cardboard box or something made from renewable reeds. Also they can burn me as a job lot in the powerstation.

However, buried in a compost heap under a tree would make beter use of the resource and save on the CO2 emissions.

 

[Jezston]

'Eco Coffins' options we looked at were more expensive than basic wooden ones!

Funeral costs are a bit of a scam ... over a grand for some blokes to stick 'em in a box and take it to a place to get burned. I wonder if hospitals will incinerate the body for free if you ask them? They certainly did with my dads legs before he carked it.

 

[Night Train]

'Eco Coffins' options we looked at were more expensive than basic wooden ones!

That's just wrong isn't it?

I might make my own.

 

[andy_wrx]

I used to hang glide 20years ago and got a phonecall from the club secretary to say that another member had been killed in a microlight accident and his last wishes were that his ashes be sprinkled over Nont Sarahs (a popular flying site in the Pennines), so his wife had requested as many of his clubmates as possible turn-up, the ashes would be sprinkled, a priest would say a few words.

About 20 or so of us turned-up plus his wife and mambers of his family, the ashes were tossed into the wind, they blew back all over us, in our eyes, hair, etc and we were all desperately trying not to cough, sneeze, rub our hair, etc...

 

[Theseus]

That's just wrong isn't it?

I might make my own.

Learn basket weaving and make one out of willow.

 

[ChrisKH]

That's our view here too.
When my brother died were struggled to get the cheapest coffin available. Everyone semed to expect us to get the most fabulously expensive and ornate thing and then got upset when I said 'Why? We're only going to burn him in it!'

If I am going to be incinerated then I want to be in a recycled cardboard box or something made from renewable reeds. Also they can burn me as a job lot in the powerstation.

However, buried in a compost heap under a tree would make beter use of the resource and save on the CO2 emissions.

My thoughts entirely. An old washing machine cardboard box is more than adequate, though a stand up freezer one would probably be more comfortable!

I really will be pissed off if they cremate me in an expensive coffin. I'd rather anyone left went on holiday with the money, preferably with my ashes looking on. Also take me to the crematorium in a "£15, any job" white van. Towed behind a bike or bikes would be nice, but unlikely to happen.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Also take me to the crematorium in a "£15, any job" white van. Towed behind a bike or bikes would be nice, but unlikely to happen.

 

[krushavik]

Gives me the creeps just thinking about. I don't want to have one for a long time yet, plenty more miles in these legs.

 

[Corvette chic]

bit of MDF painted how you want it would do

i.e. Tour de France; Tour of ..... insert your own picture; your local cycling group anything really that's personal to you.