Coca-Cola Coffin?
So I’m surfing around the Internet (no, I wasn’t looking for porn) and I came across this company in Ghana. They specialize in made-to-order caskets. The idea is to be buried in something that reflects who you were or what you enjoyed in this life. They’ve had orders for coffins shaped like airplanes, a WWII gun, even a cucumber (apparently, the stiff was a grocer).
I must admit, this Coke coffin looks kind of cool. It got me thinking, what would I want to be buried in? Probably a shoe - maybe a sexy pump or a pointy boot. I’ll bet my brother would want to lie in a replica muscle car for all eternity. As for my parents, a book for my mom, a camera for my dad? Hey, this is kind of fun!
What shape would your casket take? Have you witnessed any unique burials? Feel free to share your comments below - that’s what the reply section was made for! Today’s Jack Nation bonus code is COKECOFFIN. Type it in at www.925jackfm.com before midnight on January 31st to reap the rewards.
January 30th, 2008 at 4:06 pm
Hi Carly,
What’s up with the subjects of Death ?
One of your earlier subjects was regarding Epitaphs,
now you are going for coffin shapes..
Hmmm, you may not be searching for porn, but are searching for the macabre ? Not happy working with Jeff , he’s depressing you - I hear ya !!
Looking for a coffin for Jeff - ahhhhh, now I’m gettin’ it …
And my two cents worth - a guitar shaped coffin , please…
Maybe in the shape of:
1) George Lynch’s Mr. Scary - http://www.myguitarsolo.com/Players/GeorgeLynch.jpg
2) Rhandy Rhoads’ Jackson Flying V
http://www.kramermaniaxe.com/25thrr.jpg
3) or better yet EVH’s “Frankenstein”
http://www.mattsmusic.com/Merchant2/graphics/00000001/frankygroup.jpg
Later.
RiffBoyRob
Carly’s Note: That’s what I’m talkin’ ’bout! Great choices.
January 30th, 2008 at 4:09 pm
I worked for a funeral home a few years ago and the most unique funeral was one that you may see on tv from the middle east. The casket was kept in the family’s house with the deceased being not embalmed in it for 3 days! On the day of the burial, the casket was carried on shoulders by men in the family. They walked about 2 blocks to the awaiting funeral coach. While they walked, they handed off the casket to others who would just slide in their place without stopping.
Carly’s Note: I’m always fascinated by other customs, like the public funeral pyre. I can’t imagine what that would be like for your senses, but I guess if you were brought up with it, you wouldn’t think twice about it.
January 30th, 2008 at 4:09 pm
My casket would probably take the shape of an extended middle finger.
But I’m not bitter, really!
HA!
-S.B.
Carly’s Note: No comment.
January 30th, 2008 at 5:24 pm
Well perhaps if someone is buried in a “Coke” coffin the “Coke” will keep the body well preserved or is it the other way around the “Coke” will eat the body faster. Oh well perhaps that is better left to a discussion with “them” involved because after all they know everything!! Don’t they!?!
Happy Wednesday!! DL
Carly’s Note: Yeah, that’s right. The whole “leave a nail in a glass of cola” thing.
January 30th, 2008 at 5:52 pm
I wonder if whoever picked the Coke coffin is expecting to come back, since “Coke adds life.”
Carly’s Note: Or is an atheist because “Coke is it.”
January 30th, 2008 at 6:30 pm
BACARDI Bottle
Carly’s Note: And the bat insignia makes it almost gothic.
January 30th, 2008 at 6:36 pm
I want to be buried in an aqua PT Cruiser
ted
Carly’s Note: Works for me, Ted.
January 30th, 2008 at 7:24 pm
Hi Carly:
Rather than take up space, I’d rather be cremated and have my ashes spread to the air on the way up the Banff Chairlift (if it still exists). When I was eight I was the only one of my family brave enough to go up the lift and had my picture taken in the lift on 19 Aug 1956. I still remember the feel of the mist of the clouds when I reached the top. That was so cool in many more ways than one.
The coke coffin looks like an idea garnered from the movie ‘The Gods Must Be Crazy’. Just a thought.
Carly’s Note: Spreading ashes someplace meaningful is an excellent idea.
January 30th, 2008 at 7:56 pm
Hi Carly. On the topic of weird funerals. I once read sometime ago that the dead guy wanted to go through a drive through Tim Horton’s on his way from the funeral home to the cemetary. And he paid for everyone to get a coffee. Don’t know how much truth there is to it. But wouldn’t be your average funeral.
Carly’s Note: I love it! That’s one funeral you’d never forget.
January 30th, 2008 at 9:14 pm
I will refrain from the cucumber thought.
Being a typical Canadian, how about a Timmies Cup?
Stanley Cup?
m^*^m
Carly’s Note: Stanley Cup - awesome idea!
January 30th, 2008 at 9:27 pm
Looks like a perfect coffin for a “Coke” Addict! - Bad coke joke! It seems a little odd to me, but when I was in Oahu, visiting the Buddhist Temple, which was on the Buddhist cemetery grounds (many Japanese people live there), I was surprised to see that families would come out and have barbeques and family picnics on their loved one’s burial sites. (There were no headstones). They would also regularly set things that the person enjoyed during life on their sites - such as Coca-Cola, cans of Spam (the traditional meat of Hawaii), cigarettes, booze - it was quite a festive looking cemetery, and the beauty was, their favourite things weren’t going in the ground. On the downside, everyone knew who the town drunks were!
Carly’s Note: Great story. I like the idea of holding gatherings on the grave, but am not sure about leaving all that stuff behind. Could make the cemetery look like a dumping ground, no?
January 31st, 2008 at 11:04 am
I never gave thought to a casket but one morning I heard John Lennon’s “In my life” and I was thininking about the scene at the begining of “The Big Chill” when they played “you can’t always get what you wan’t” by the stonesl during the service of their dead freind. So I mentioned to my wife that “In my life” would be the song I would want people to reflect on at my service. I guess if I was thinking about a casket how about one shaped like the Oscar statue.
Carly’s Note: I love the Oscar statuette idea. As for “In My Life”, don’t they sometimes play that at weddings? Not sure what that says about marriage.
January 31st, 2008 at 6:52 pm
Hey Carly!
GREAT blog!!
I’m going out in style. I don’t want to be ‘wormfood’, so, I decided to be burnt to a crisp, and have my ashes put into a simple urn and shipped to Scotland. There, in the highlands, beneath breathtaking sky, mist, and towering mountains and hills, I want to be taken by boat to the middle of “Loch Ness, and have my ashes emptied there on the Loch.
THAT will be my final resting place.
And, since I spent three LONG days in hopes of a glimpse of “Nessie”, to no avail…I hope it chokes on my ashes…….:)
Carly’s Note: How picturesque!