Would you like a designer coffin?

I think mine would have to be pink with Shoes all over it, oh or maybe a pink shoe.....

I saw this on the news i think! But no....whats the point your dead anyway so its not like you can see it!
Waste of money, why not donate the money to people who need it more.

No I wouldn't- recycled cardboard will be fine, and plant a tree over the top. As a non-Christian (somewhere between agnostic and atheist), I wouldn't (at this stage in my life) want a Christian burial, but spending (hopefully) the rest of eternity in a tranquil forest would be OK.

I shall donate my body to science. The bits they don't want can be burned and the ashes scattered in my garden.

The cost of the coffin can go to the bar bill as my final gift.

Definitely! I'd design it now so that when i die it reminds everyone of what i was like when i was younger, rather than the incontinent blabberer that i'm sure i'm destined to be.

Don't wish to offend anyone, but I have always said I wouldn't care if I was popped off in a black bin liner.
Does it really matter?
If you believe in the afterlife you'll go there anyway.
If you don't - well there you are - same applies.

I have actually joined one of those schemes so that my family won't be left in debt of a funeral. (Not hypocritical..just practical)

not at all I think that it is a total waste of money and I would much prefer that those I love splashed out on a holiday and party to cheer themselves up, once im gone it will hardly matter what shape or style of coffin i make my way to the crematorium in.

i would like an old style coffin with red satin inside i would shelve it out and put all my horror dvd collections in it i think it would make a nice addition to my horror stuff and keep it hidden away.

i plan on being cremated and anyone* who wants to keep any of the ashes can have them put into a small statuette of bast (egyptian cat goddess). saves the backs of the poor pallbearers. also, like mid_73, i'm not a big fan of the whole christian burial thing (what with this whopping big pentagram on the back of my neck and all) so no coffins for me! pop me in the oven in a cardboard box, and sprinkle most of me somewhere real pretty.

that'll do nicely.



* anyone subject to permission, no creepy types keeping bits of me, ta very much.

Possibly like a replica Lamborghini if they can do it! They're my favourite cars.

I am going to be a spare part supplier. Whatever is left after that, can go the way all earthly things do. Burnt and then just scattered, in an ocean, where I feel most comfortable.

I'm breaking for spares too. Once all my serviceable parts have been removed, I would like to be cremated and my ashes put in the Clyde near New Lanark.

However, if the people who survive me want to do something else with the bits that can't be recycled, then they are welcome to do anything that makes my passing easier for them. I'm of the opinion that funerals do more for the mourners than they do for the deceased.

It's a bit of a tradition in our family to decorate our coffins appropriately.
Nobody goes undecorated. It's then a celebration of your life rather than a commiseration on your death.
Close members of your family choose things that represent you to them and that is what they decorate your coffin with, so yes to designer coffin, but no to having it made for you.

Wendy.

Hmmm, since watching a recent plastic surgery doc on a gentleman who wanted , shall we say wee willy winky enlarged! His skin grafts came from cadivers whom,left their remains to science, since watching that I've changed my mind!!!
A gent that lives up the road from me has a company called TheBlackHearse.co.uk, they offer a very different arrival at the church. It's a glass hearse pulled by a harley,very popular, why not make a grand exit?