Thread: Build your own coffin.

Great idea Wongo. For the cost of a post hole digger you're funeral costs are minimal. Would you have to assume you own the land and the new owners are aware of where your remains lie? Imagine some sort of CSI investigation in 100 years time!

HI SJT and your respondents,

Lets get on with the joy of living and making magnificent pieces of furniture and not focussing on this macabre topic. How about it folks??


Old Pete

I am not dead yet and hopefully not for another 20 years. I assume by that time green funerals are a common thing.

Originally Posted by old pete

HI SJT and your respondents,

Lets get on with the joy of living and making magnificent pieces of furniture and not focussing on this macabre topic. How about it folks??


Old Pete

No! We're enjoying the topic. It's something that's been on my mind for decades.

I once lived on a large rural property in Ireland and always imagined, like Wongo, that I'd be burried there in a post hole, never thinking that circumstances and abodes can change. I own a house, but I don't have a place I call home any longer, hence I'm content for my ashes to be put in the wheelie bin.

Originally Posted by old pete

HI SJT and your respondents,

Lets get on with the joy of living and making magnificent pieces of furniture and not focussing on this macabre topic. How about it folks??

Old Pete

I'm very comfortable with my mortality and don't find it macabre at all. What I am uncomfortable with is the obscene amount of money that goes towards unscrupulous undertakers for boxes that aren't go to be seen or burnt. However, saying that coffins can be magnificent pieces of furniture if made by woodworkers who would like to make their own eternal resting place. Hence the reason for my post.

Originally Posted by bab600

I may be cynical bet do they really burn them ??? and then recycle them again We had a family funeral 3 weeks ago and we saw the coffin for all of 1 hour and that was it! ..............
Brian

The hardware does get recycled or rather it does not get placed into incinerator and is used again and again.

Originally Posted by Cruzi

The hardware does get recycled or rather it does not get placed into incinerator and is used again and again.

If the hardware is removed, then surely, as it belongs to the family/estate of the deceased, it should be returned to them for potential future use. It seems double dipping is prevalent in the undertaking business too.

Originally Posted by old pete

HI SJT and your respondents,

Lets get on with the joy of living and making magnificent pieces of furniture and not focussing on this macabre topic. How about it folks??


Old Pete

My appologies if my post caused you any offence and I am sure others here would share with me if we have so done. It can be a touchy subject for anyone who may, for whatever reason, find themselves at odds with a lighthearted take on issues such as this.

Originally Posted by Woodwould

If the hardware is removed, then surely, as it belongs to the family/estate of the deceased, it should be returned to them for potential future use. It seems double dipping is prevalent in the undertaking business too.

Only an Irishman would want the handles back. But come to think of it, they could be handy, you could screw one on each of the grandkids heads, it would make them so much easier to pick up.

Originally Posted by rustynail

Only an Irishman would want the handles back.

You've got the Scots mixed up with the Irish; the Irish are notoriously generous and the Scots are famously tight. Scots would sooner hide their deceased than have to pay for any form of funeral.

Originally Posted by rustynail

But come to think of it, they could be handy, you could screw one on each of the grandkids heads, it would make them so much easier to pick up.

What's wrong with using their ears?

Originally Posted by Woodwould

You've got the Scots mixed up with the Irish; the Irish are notoriously generous and the Scots are famously tight. Scots would sooner hide their deceased than have to pay for any form of funeral.


What's wrong with using their ears?

That would be cruel

Regulations are laws which are so unpopular that they have to be looked on by the police.

Really, I'd like to be cremated. Then, half a dozen of my mates get all liquored up first, then get half a dozen case of beer, jump in the truck with my kids and drive 40 miles up the Robson Valley, scattering cans and ashes all the way. The way I see it, I am built with food which came from here, might as well go back.

Originally Posted by rustynail

That would be cruel

Scotts, Irish....both interchangable. I'm Welsh!

Originally Posted by rustynail

I'm Welsh!

That explains a lot. My commiserations.