It is a health and safety law that funeral homes cannot resell used coffins to the general public.
I’ll buy a used car. But a used coffin? I have a thing about wearing someone elses underwear (if I don’t know them), so someone elses coffin? I’d have to think about it, at least, but luckily when it comes to buying used coffins it’s more display models and scratch and dent sales. That changes things.
Actually, coffins aren’t sold (legally) that have held human remains. Dead human is considered bio-hazard material once in the coffin. What Coffin Couches does is buy those display models and the scratch and dent victims and they turn them into couches.
Très à la mode, I know. How killer would it be to have one of those muthas sittin’ in the parlor when you entertain company? “Oh, I was dying to have one; I’d have even killed for it.” The only thing better would be to have your very own custom made coffin.
YES! I found this place on the net (don’t ask why I was looking up coffins and caskets, I’m weird that way–like you’ve not looked, for shame, for shame, judging me like that), Coffin It Up, and they make custom coffins. I know, why haven’t we already thought of this!? And imagine my relief when I realized I could stop making my own. Check out the Halloween coffin they made.
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Hawks1974
October 16th, 2009 at 5:11 pm
OMG, that is so cool…