Boxes

Given my current preoccupation with death (not by choice, but I'm leaving for my grandfather's memorial service tomorrow - um, later today), it's only fitting that I stumbled across Bert & Bud's Vintage Coffins via memepool.com. Bert and Bud will create a customized coffin or urn, or you can order your own simple pine box kit to decorate yourself. Interestingly enough, there's also a company that sells biodegradable cardboard caskets. While I'm all for earth-friendly products, their woodgrain coffin reminds me a bit too much of a banker's cardboard file box. I appreciate the effort the funeral business (and yes, there is a funeralbiz.com) is making to commemorate the hobbies and pastimes of those newly passed, however, the dolphin and sailboat urns some folks are peddling are downright scary.