Best final project for a woodworker ...

Make mine a Pine box.

I th> Browsing the Rockler catalog the other day, came across these

plans.http://www.rockler.com/product.cfm?page=900&filter=caskethttp://www.rockler.com/product.cfm?page=5016&filter=casket>> "Not yet -- I'm not done building my final project !!! " :-)

Even some of us Methodist wood workers where impressed with that "plain" wooden coffin. Puff

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When my father died back in December, we buried him in a cherry casket from St. Meinrad Archabbey in Southern Indiana where I went to school:

Dick Durbin Tallahassee

school:

Wow, Dick, that looks like a very repectable piece of work for $ 2K. I wonder if they export.

They are very nice, but not for me. I'd rather go in a cardboard box and let my wife and friends party with the money saved. I just don't see the value of putting an expensive box in the ground. I'm for cremation and no viewing. If you want to see me, if you want me to have flowers, do it now, not after I'm gone.

"Edwin Pawlowski" wrote in news:2CB6i.4803$ snipped-for-privacy@newssvr23.news.prodigy.net:

I'm with Edwin, with one proviso. If there are any usable parts left when I die, please re-use them as best as possible. Then dispose of my remains so that nothing is left behind, as cheaply as possible.

Yes.

Seems kind of morbid to me but I guess its not to everyone. I have a cousin who built very nice caskets for his wife and himself a few years ago. Beautiful but not quite as elaborate as some of the mortuary boxes. To him it was a challenging project with a defined purpose. They are stored in the attic storage of his workshop building.

RonB

I'm opting for a post-hole digger. Bury me vertically, I'll take up less space. Just a hole, cover me up with a lid from a garbage can.

But the casket lobby made rules......

My wife's uncle had built his own...He took great delight in showing his final resting place....until needed they used it for blanket storage. Rod

Those were also my father's sentiments.

Robatoy wrote:

My mother had to put her 2nd husband in a nursing home.

When I went to visit, it was early evening, the lights were low, and people were around a large room, sitting in wheelchairs.

My immediate thought was, "My God, this is a warehouse for people waiting to die."

When I got home, sat at the kitchen table and drank a bottle of wine, very unusual for me, and thought, "When my time comes, take me to my boat, give me a bottle of Scotch, a bottle of Drambuie, and a bag of ice."

"Install a water soluble seacock, rig the sails, set the autopilot, and cast me off."

Hopefully, I won't remember unkind things.

Lew

That's my plan...

I think they actually do that in NYC.

I'm not too big on the "final project idea, but, as a blacksmith, I just attended a 3 day grave marker workshop.

Pete Stanaitis

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Mike Fields wrote:

My buddy decoy carver, the late and talented Harry Waite, carved a hollow canvasback drake with a plug in the bottom. His wife put his ashes in this floating casket and put it in the headwaters of the Chesapeake Bay. A couple found the decoy with the description of the contents and donated it to the museum at St. Michaels, MD. Here's a link to a PDF of their newsletter with a photo of Harry's fantastic carving on the last page.

I understand that some dipshit state regulations forbade the display of something with human remains, so the decoy is no longer on exhibit.

Joel Jacobson