DIY Coffin

[R]

You wanna use this lot.....

[AA]

Pimp My Casket...No one beats Ghana for a colourful send off

lot of commercial coffins were flat pack, wrap round sides on solid base , makes for easier storage.

DF Coffin and Casket used to have a huge plant near Annan, not sure if related to the DFS furniture chain.

Adam

[RubberBiker]

You could make one with a buried layer of asbestos - I'm sure the staff at the crematorium will be terribly amused by it.

[Andy Dingley]

You can. Read the Natural Death Handbook for contact details (AFAIR).

[Andy Dingley]

Have you _seen_ the regulations for burial at sea? Enough to put you right off.

OTOH, horse-drawn hearses seem like a good deal overall.

[Andy Dingley]

Neighbouring undertaker. Knocks and scratches in transit needed repairs pronto. Also handle upgrades (six to eight, and better attachment) when one occupant was too fat to carry otherwise.

Lidl's folding steel trestles are handy too.

[Owain]

A major obstacle is finding a suitable location. Scattering of ashes is much simpler, doesn't need a permit (although there are some restrictions on the type of casket) and the Royal Navy Association will do it for free for former sailors.

If you want to spend your final hours on this earth at the shitty end of a horse.

They don't do coffins by train any more AFAIK.

Owain

[ARWadsworth]

I do not think that these can be beaten for value

would do me.

Adam

[jgharston]

You need planning permission and landowner's permission to be interred. Yer normal cemeteries already have this, but you'll need to apply for, eg a garden burial. Though not required, it's recommended to mention it on the deeds to avoid scaring future owners.

I'm sure there's a way through the regulations to allow an outdoor cremation. After all, the Vikings do it.

-- JGH

[Lobster]

Just looking at the link in Adam Wadsworth's reply, I see someone's already pipped me to the post on yet another or my business innovations...!

[Derek Geldard]

All sounds a bit OTT for a coffin. ;-)

Derek

[ARWadsworth]

As an aside

Can anyone remember the last time that they saw an open coffin?

It is something that I have not seen for many years.

Adam

[Jules]

Hmm, about 2 years ago. Maybe it's more common on this side of the Atlantic...

[geoff]

Been around for years

At school (just a few years back), I had a friend whose father was the MD of Rigid Containers

always said that he was going to be interred in a cardboard coffin

[geoff]

Alarm system which you can activate, just in case you're not actually dead

[ARWadsworth]

You need a zombie proof alarm, just in case.

Adam

[The Medway Handyman]

I'm surprised IKEA haven't made a flat pack coffin at a bargain price. After all, if 1 in 10 are cocieved in an IKEA bed.........

[RubberBiker]

But what would they call it?

[OG]

A minister friend has experience of a funeral turning into very distressing event for family and friends as a result of a cardboard coffin failure. I know funerals are distressing anyway, but the body falling out of the coffin made the whole thing much worse for everyone.

[dennis]

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