DIY Coffins?

[Andy Dingley]

Then find a funeral director who will handle the thing (or _really_ DIY it). Funerals are a disgusting trade, replete with rip-offs and excessive markups. Part of this is the closed-shop attitude by most funeral directors (many of which are now a very small number of chains, operating under the name of old established local firms, whose founders are long gone). There are good funeral directors who are happy to use a coffin they didn't supply (or one they can supply at reasonable cost) but they're the minority.

As just an average furniture maker I can comfortably beat any coffin retail price, and do a better job.

[Colin Wilson]

Nestle.

The people that tell you their food is healthy are burying the evidence - literally.

[Mary Fisher]

I think you should start with an acorn.

Mary

[Mary Fisher]

LOLALOT!

[Mary Fisher]

I couldn't agree more.

My family has full instructions on what's to happen to us when we pop off. No stranger must have anything to do with our bodies or the celebrations or burial. Money saved will be used for the Party of Parties.

Hurrah! Got rid of the old gits at last! I've begun a collection of champagne and have made a shroud. It will have to be re-used for the other.

Mary

[Mary Fisher]

Really?

Tell us more.

Mary

[stejonda]

In message , Frank Erskine writes

well almost Ikea:

there's always Costco (readymade though): finally, a book on how to make a coffin out of Ikea furniture:

that's DIY innit?

[Andy Hall]

We should send that to Kamprad's wife. Apparently, she comes up with all the names.

[Andy Hall]

Is that meant to be a j-oak?

[Andy Wade]

g-rowan

[Mary Fisher]

Who's Kamprad?

Mary

[Mary Fisher]

I love the reference to Acts of God though ...

That's more like it. Still prefer the acorn idea - it gives you time.

Mary

[Mary Fisher]

You deserve a tree-t.

Mary

[Andy Hall]

Ingvar Kamprad, whose initials form the IK piece of the name, IKEA, with E and A coming from the initials of Elmtaryd and Agunnaryd, the names of the farm and village in southern Sweden where he grew up.

He started IKEA's furniture business in 1947 and much of it is still run from Almhult, in the middle of nowhere in southern Sweden.

Nowadays, IKEA and its various holdings is owned by a Dutch trust which is controlled by Kamprad and he himself lives in Switzerland.

In terms of net worth, he is the world's 6th richest man among

Bill Gates (Microsoft) Warren Buffett (Berkshire Hathaway) Lakshmi Mittal (Mittal Steel) Carlos Slim Helu (Telecoms sector) Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Alsaud (nephew of Saudi king) Ingvar Kamprad (IKEA) Paul Allem (Microsoft) Karl Albrecht (Aldi) Larry Ellison (Oracle) S Robson Walton (Walmart) John Walton (Walmart) Alice Walton (Walmart) Helen Walton (Walmart) Kenneth Thomson (Thomson Corp) Lilian Bettencourt (L'Oreal) Bernard Arnault (LVMH) Michael Dell (Dell Computer) Sheldon Adelson (casinos) Theo Albrecht (Aldi)

All of which goes to show that with a few exceptions one can make a fortune out of selling lots of cheap tat and not giving a sh*t about your customers.

[Andy Hall]

I am sure that they are appropriate for the customer base....

[Mary Fisher]

You wouldn't do that of course, given the brains ... :-)

Mary

[Andy Wade]

[Alan Holmes]

Might have guessed you'd have come up with something like that!(:-)

It was a self assembly coffin, but as I'm sure you never watch Corrie you wouldn't have known!

I wonder if MFI stock them, or that dutch company?

I haven't seen them in B&Q yet, just a matter of time I suppose.

I'm thinking of getting one for myself!

[John Rumm]

your 'avin a larch...

[Adrian C]

Eccentric welsh landlady of my student lodgings spent a bit of a sum burying her mother and thought it prudent to buy her own coffin for when her own time comes. Placed it in the middle of the living room as a coffee table. A Japanese TV company thought this strange enough (as if there weren't enough strange things already in Japan) to send a TV film crew to capture this as a newsworthy article on how the Brits prepare for the inevitable. :-)