wood for the coffin they carry you off in but not very often

[Electric Comet]

watched a good movie and the main character makes his own coffin as the time nears he was sick with something but i think the details were left out they didn't really matter in the movie

so who is going to make their own and what will the wood choice(s) be

i think mighty oak is a good choice but redwood is lighter and might look more dramatic

a pine box would suffice too

but now i wonder if i use some found wood would this be considered upcycling

i guess it would be recycling as it will go back in the ground

[John McCoy]

Electric Comet wrote in news:mjikln$6rl$1 @dont-email.me:

Mahogany is traditional.

But I think when my time comes I'm just going to have them throw me in the ocean, no coffin needed.

John

[Lew Hodgett]

RE: Subject

Donation of body to med school.

Lew

[Larry Blanchard]

Nope - recycling.

[Sonny]

Morticians use excelsior (shredded wood) for padding/bedding in coffins. That would decay without problems, also. They probably use the undyed aspen.

I purchase the 25 lb box of aspen, for upholstery stuffings, when a customer wants that kind of original stuffing reinstalled. Would likely need 50 lbs for a coffin.

Sonny

[graham]

Elm was often used in the UK. Graham

[Just Wondering]

I can't speak for everywhere, but in these parts a coffin is usually placed in a concrete burial vault in the ground, protected from soil, moisture, burrowing small critters, etc. Unless there's some law against it, if someone makes their own coffin they could choose whatever type of wood strikes their fancy.

[G. Ross]

I just cut up a large sweetgum log for bowl blanks. I cut it in 18" lengths then slice off blanks lengthwise. Today I am hauling off 8 large trash bags of sweetgum excelsior. It really makes a lot when you cut it lengthwise. Can't give it away around here.

[Scott Lurndal]

Make sure that 1) It isn't too heavy for the mourners to carry or lower 2) The handles stay attached when it is loaded and carried.

[hubops]

.... couldn't resist :-)

John T.

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[Casper]

There are restrictions on location and the body must not float. Navy still does it according to those rules. Ashes not restricted.

[woodchucker]

A pine box for me. What's the point of a really nice coffin? I never understood that.

So the living are not ashamed??? get real.

[DerbyDad03]

I'm trying to talk my friends into doing this for/with me. Some get it, some don't...I guess I know who my closest friends are.

[hubops]

Sorry - I don't get it - there's no caption to explain what's going on around the campfire .. John T.

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[DerbyDad03]

What's going on around the campfire is a bunch of friends reminiscing about the friend who is the source of the flames.

[Ed Pawlowski]

Good way to go.

[DerbyDad03]

They might want to hold off on the s'mores though.

[Puckdropper]

DerbyDad03 wrote in news: [e-mail]:

Everyone should be entitled to a last midnight snack. Someone is bound to drop a marshmallow!

Puckdropper

[Electric Comet]

watch that movie i mentioned then it might be clearer in other words it is a racket

i never heard that explanation

[Electric Comet]

there is also the sky burial