Crazy Coffins Put The 'Fun' Back Into FUNerals

[matcom]

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NOTTINGHAM, England (AP) -- Richard Mullard chuckles when he thinks about his funeral. It's not that he thinks death is a laughing matter -- he just relishes the thought of someone trying to fit him into a hearse while he's wearing skis and lying in a sled-shaped coffin.

Mullard is one of dozens of people who have who have turned to British coffin maker Vic Fearn & Co. with requests for custom caskets. Past creations include a Louis Vuitton duffel bag, a corkscrew and a pink ballet slipper.

The 47-year-old Mullard, who has made several expeditions to the Arctic, decided about 10 years ago that he wanted to be buried in a replica of the sled that carries his equipment.

"As I get older, that's going to be put behind me and forgotten to some extent," he said. "But the people who get to know me from now to then, they won't know about this important aspect of my life. But that will be made public at my funeral."

Vic Fearn, which has been in the coffin business for 140 years, started making theme coffins in the 1990s when a customer requested a coffin shaped like the cockpit of a World War II Spitfire fighter plane.

"I thought it was a bit strange," said company director John Gill. "But I dare say since then people have said, 'If someone can have a cockpit, then I can have a car or a barge or whatever."'

http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/02/12/crazy.coffins.ap/index.html

[idgiehkt]

1. put the fun "back" into funerals???

:shrug:

:rofl:

[jobycom]

2. That's almost as bad as "Putting the laughter back in slaughter."

:rofl:

[yurbud]

3. put me in an aztec costume then in a UFO

it will make a lot of people happy.

[Hugin]

4. Oh, great... Here we go!

NBA, NFL, NASCAR etc. caskets... :eyes:


Now how come I hadn't thought of it? :o

[China_cat]

5. Sort of like this?