Posts Tagged ‘coffins’
Sexy Coffin Calendar Showdown!
25, Feb 2010Coffin Calendars Are a Sexy Hit
New Poland Express (October 16, 2009)
via Trendhunter Magazine, “Controversial Casket Calendars”
Last October DeathRef tweeted about Italian coffin maker CofaniFunebri, which created a coffin product catalog featuring scantily clad goths. (This did not make the Death Reference Desk proper — while fine with being a sexy goth coffin calendar tweeter, I [...]
- By: Meg Holle
- In: Death + Humor| Funeral Industry
- Tags: coffins, marketing
Premature Burial Device Patents
2, Feb 2010 Brace yourself for some library science / classification / database search nerdery… or skip below to see a list of U.S. patents related to premature burial!
This morning I ran across a list of suspected premature burials with some interesting contemporaneous newspaper clips (it also links to How to Survive If You Are Buried Alive [...]
- By: Meg Holle
- In: Burial| Death + Technology| Death + the Law
- Tags: coffins, patents, premature burial, research
Cremating Supersized Dead Bodies
16, Dec 2009Bath Cemetery Refused to Cremate Man Because He Was Too Heavy
The Bath Chronicle (December 14, 2009)
Every once in a while, a dead body story brings home the following point: all the issues that surround the living world don’t entirely stop when a person dies. Indeed, funeral directors and crematorium operators encounter most aspects of the [...]
- By: John
- In: Cremation| Funeral Industry
- Tags: coffins, obesity
Wal-Mart: Save Money. Live Better. Die Cheap(ly).
29, Oct 2009Wal-Mart Starts Selling Caskets, Urns Online
Emily Fredrix, Associated Press (October 28, 2009)
It’s all over the death-dar: following Costco’s lead, Wal-Mart now offers caskets and urns for sale online, with priority Fed-Ex freight shipment anywhere in the continental U.S.
With prices that undercut funeral home options combined with its juggernaut consumer base — not to mention “and [...]
- By: Meg Holle
- In: Death + Humor| Death + the Economy| Funeral Industry
- Tags: coffins, urns, video
Minnesota Historical Society Funerary Objects
Matt Anderson, MNHS Curator (October 19, 2009)
Just in time for Halloween. The Minnesota Historical Society presents the following video on Funerary Objects from its own collection. Many state historical societies have these kinds of objects in storage. It’s always interesting to see how they present them and when. Halloween, of course, [...]
- By: John
- In: Burial| Funeral Industry
- Tags: coffins, video