coffins

On Mon, 16 Jan 2012 00:12:24 +1100, F Murtz

DAGS coffin plans free. You'll get enough free plans to empty half of New York.

Needing a place to have daytime naps?

Does any one have plans for a proper coffin (casket)or a tutorial or instruction manual. Not the plain square box type that you can find easily but a proper professional looking shaped one like you find in a funeral parlour

Those Twilight movies really are affecting people, aren't they.

Shucks! Now you let Ed and Mike in on the joke too.

Some people just like satin. The wife doesn't like it when the lid falls closed. She says, "The air shortage makes it harder to orgasm."

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I have done that, that is why I asked here. The dozens of free plans are not for the quality coffins that I am after plans for. They are very plain boxes

Well, I doubt you will find free plans for elite or high-end coffin designs. Those designs would most likely be copyrighted (and some design elements may be patented) and you would have to pay for them, IF the owners would be willing to sell their designs to anyone in the first place... that's probably why you don't readily find them available. Those who have the copyright/patent to elite coffins may also have contracted with interior design experts, to further the elegance of the coffin interiors, etc., hence the total design may belong to a group or company, furthering its chance of it not being readily available to you and I.

Your best bet may be to improvise, enhance and/or modify a lesser design to your own liking.

Sonny

I always wondered why, when one is dead and can't possibly care any more, a plain pine box isn't sufficient.

There really is no point in burying a $10,000 fancy box that will just be rotting away in a few years anyway, or wasting fine walnut just to bury it.

A cardboard box into the oven then the ash into the (saltwater) drink, that's my plan if medcure won't take me. It they do take me, I'll end up in the drink anyway. Always wanted to travel.

- Doug

The amenities are for the living. Amen.

On Sun, 15 Jan 2012 14:15:11 -0700, Doug Winterburn

I've left instructions to cremate me as cheaply as possible and to spread my ashes in a lumberyard or maybe off a mountain top. No money spent on a sermon or someone eulogizing me. Then my instructions are for my beneficiaries to go out and have a few drinks in my name and then to spend the rest of my estate on themselves.

But, I can envision a nice coffin (before it's cremated) as having its uses. Makes the living feel a little better I think, sending me off in style. And all things being equal, I'd prefer to be cremated in a fancy coffin than a pine box ~ except that I'm too cheap to pay for that fine coffin.

On Sun, 15 Jan 2012 17:38:23 -0600, "HeyBub"

Something a little ornate that can sit on a mantle.

You could build one if you had plans

Hey "Build your own coffin" as the latest woodworking fad!!!

Some (all?) cemetaries have rules which restrict what they will put in the ground. For instance, they may require a specific sort of "vault" and a casket that meets certain requirements. This was explained to me over a casket that was pre-ordered 30 years ago and did not meet the current requirments, but was "grandfather'ed" in.

The new requirements insure the sale of more expensive caskets. What's new?

So by all means, check with your cemetary before building--and get your agreement in writing! I can sort of see some of the appeal in a project like this, but I'm not in a rush over it. ; )

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Bury me in a coffin that resembles my house. Pine interior, sandwiched with drywall and vinyl siding. Don't forget the ice and water shield on the roof!

Puckdropper

No, the amentities are for the Funeral Home, who just persuaded the poor, grieving widow/widower that they need the finest silk lining and the most spectacular wood and pure brass or even gold hardware to go in the ground with a worthless husk after the soul has left it.

They're as honorable as freakin' used car salesmen, those bastards.

Burn my husk and feed the ocean fishies from the cardboard box.

-- I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues. --Duke Ellington

On Mon, 16 Jan 2012 11:47:16 +1100, F Murtz

I could design my own plans if it came down to it. I'm just not prepared to spend copious sums of money on some exotic hardwood with attendant hardware and then have it all burnt into ashes in a crematorium. I might however, make a wooden urn to hold my ashes should my beneficiary and his family want to display me on the fireplace mantel.