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Old 01-27-2004, 11:26 AM   #1
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1/27/2004: Coke coffin



It's Ghana, and these carpenters are proud of their work on this coffin and severe trademark violation.

It turns out that Ghana has developed a tradition of building wierd, wild, and wonderful coffins. For the last few decades they have done this, put a lot of work into building them. Sometimes bodies will wait in morgues while these coffins are built, which are individually worked to represent the individual's life.

To me, this is a little better than the American tradition of building big, heavy, ornate deals with chrome and finish and silk lining... sold for too much money, used for a few hours, and just buried away.

For my own purposes, this is all useless. Once I'm dead I truly do not give a rat's ass what happens with what's left. If my bod can be used for some good purpose, such as organ donation or scientific, then please use it; otherwise, please dispose of it as cheaply as possible in an environmentally-friendly way.
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Old 01-27-2004, 11:48 AM   #2
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What *would* be the most environmentally friendly way of disposing of you ?

Cremation? (a lot of fossil fuels are burned, I bet)
Buried? (Landfill problem)
Take you out to sea, encase you in cement, and shove you overboard? (seems like a lot of work/resources)
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Old 01-27-2004, 12:07 PM   #3
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My brother has expressed a wish that he should be stuffed, set out on the front porch in a rocking chair, with a cooler of beer next to him so that passersby might stop and hoist a cold one periodically.

There would be worse things.
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Old 01-27-2004, 12:35 PM   #4
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What *would* be the most environmentally friendly way of disposing of you ?
Made into hamburger (Toadburger?) or petfood.
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Old 01-27-2004, 12:56 PM   #5
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Old 01-27-2004, 01:38 PM   #6
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Old 01-27-2004, 01:53 PM   #7
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Re: 1/27/2004: Coke coffin

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For my own purposes, this is all useless. Once I'm dead I truly do not give a rat's ass what happens with what's left. If my bod can be used for some good purpose, such as organ donation or scientific, then please use it; otherwise, please dispose of it as cheaply as possible in an environmentally-friendly way.
I've always thought I'd like to be creameated. I loathe the thought of rotting in a box. If I had to be burried, I'd want to be planted under a sapling of some cool tree withOUT the coffin. I don;t think that's legal though. Donated to science is too icky.....i know a girl who's dad was donated, and they had him for 5 years, and then mailed her mom a box of his ashes ( the remains were incinerated)...so mom had to deal with her grief once more.

I'm an organ donor, but i restricted my skin and eyes for some illogical and emotional reason that i can't explain.


so, burn me i guess. and don;t keep the ashes.
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Old 01-27-2004, 01:56 PM   #8
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Coffin? Why does it have shelves?
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Old 01-27-2004, 02:46 PM   #9
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What *would* be the most environmentally friendly way of disposing of you ?
Yeah, I'd like to know that too. My dad just passed away (by which I mean we buried him last Wednesday) and I found myself unhappy with the usual embalming/preserved wood/concrete bunker style of burial. I'm not a rich pig; I have no interest in permanently shoving aside a piece of the world to remind it of my greatness.

I heard some religion (Jewish?) doesn't believe in such preservation, so some cemetaries have a section set aside for decomposers. I'd think I'd like to go there, after the organ depository.
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Old 01-27-2004, 03:02 PM   #10
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There is a new movement know as "Green Burials" where one is buried without emabalming or virutally indestructable vaults and caskets. It has been around in England for awhile but now several private cemeteries in the US are popping up including one not far from me in Texas.

Check out http://www.msnbc.msn.com/Default.aspx?id=3947912&p1=0

Cemeteries all have one thing in common, folks are just dying to get in
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Old 01-27-2004, 03:45 PM   #11
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Yeah count me in for just being buried out back under a tree too. I know my damn dogs would dig me up tho.
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Old 01-27-2004, 04:12 PM   #12
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There is a new movement know as "Green Burials" where one is buried without emabalming or virutally indestructable vaults and caskets. It has been around in England for awhile but now several private cemeteries in the US are popping up including one not far from me in Texas.

Check out http://www.msnbc.msn.com/Default.aspx?id=3947912&p1=0

Cemeteries all have one thing in common, folks are just dying to get in
I'm pretty sure there is one of those cemetaries in the Dahmer's back yard, too.

edit: spelling...thanks, shelb
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Old 01-27-2004, 05:59 PM   #13
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This is something HP and I have discussed recently with the passing of his aunt. After watching her kids give her a large expensive funeral she wouldn't have wanted, we both decided we would like to be buried in a pine or cardboard box. After looking at that article on the green cemetery I am thinking that would be a nice way to go. I would love to be buried under a big pine tree with wild flowers growing on my grave.
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Old 01-27-2004, 06:04 PM   #14
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I wish to be cremated, with some of my ashes spread over Chicago's Lake Michigan shoreline and the rest spread across the grounds of the Gateway Arch in St. Louis. Please make sure that anything usable by science is removed first. After my cremation, throw a party in my honor. Everyone attending must drink at least one pint of Guinness or I will curse you from the heavens.
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Old 01-27-2004, 07:38 PM   #15
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These beautiful handmade Trappist caskets are just the ticket. Carry them to the grave, open the lid, dump the body in the hole and use the casket for a coffee table.
PBS had a show on the casket builders of Ghana. They were building one that looked like a banana on the show. Not just banana shaped, but yellow with a brown stem.
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