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Coffin Making: Now with Barcodes and Touch Screens

10, Dec 2010

Bringing the Coffin Industry Back From the Dead How barcodes and touch screens are resuscitating a casket factory Ben Austen, The Atlantic (December 2010) Modern, industrial casket making is a manufacturing business like any other, but for the fact that most people never think about modern, industrial casket making. The above article in The Atlantic [...]

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  • By: John
  • In: Death + Technology|Death + the Economy|Funeral Industry
  • Tags: coffins, funerals
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Live Free or Die…in a Hand Crafted Benedictine Monk Casket

17, Aug 2010

St. Joseph Abbey’s Monks Battle State Funeral Industry Regulators for Right to Sell Caskets Ramon Antonio Vargas, The Times-Picayune (August 13, 2010) Monks Fight for Right to Sell Caskets Locally Debbie Glover, St. Tammany News (August 15, 2010) One of the lesser-known classic blunders is trying to prevent jovial Benedictine monks, living peacefully in their [...]

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  • By: John
  • In: Death + the Economy|Death + the Law|Funeral Industry
  • Tags: coffins, funeral homes, video
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Casket Trust-busting on the Horizon?

2, Aug 2010

Consumer Advocates Want More Competition in Casket Market April Dembosky, Marketplace (August 2, 2010) American Public Media’s Marketplace has a short radio segment about a consumer advocacy group suing the three major casket companies for monopolizing the market. A federal judge will decide later this week whether the companies’ distribution policy of selling caskets to [...]

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  • By: Meg Holle
  • In: Death + the Law|Funeral Industry
  • Tags: coffins, podcast
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Sexy Coffin Calendar Showdown!

25, Feb 2010

Coffin 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 [...]

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  • By: Meg Holle
  • In: Death + Humor|Funeral Industry
  • Tags: coffins, marketing
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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 [...]

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  • By: Meg Holle
  • In: Burial|Death + Technology|Death + the Law
  • Tags: coffins, patents, premature burial, research
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