coffins

oxymoron | 14:23 Sat 10th Apr 2010 | Body & Soul

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I heard somewhere if you were going to be cremated you could `hire` a wooden coffin with a cardboard insert and the insert with the person inside would be cremated but the outer coffin could then be reused. Anyone else heard of this?

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craft1948

It'll be lined with Pampers...........

MTbowel

Personally I was lost for words when I saw the cardboard and willow coffins on this page. Click the cardboard one for a larger image. Note that the cardboard one is NOT a coffin insert - it is the coffin itself.
I find it appalling.

MTbowel

Oops forgot the link:

http://www.co-operati...ffins/Coffins-Page-2/

joggerjayne

LOL

The cardboard one looks like something you'd receive from Amazon ...

... or something your new Lacrosse stick would arrive in.

tamborine

Burials remain in the coffin but not so cremations. The handles are plastic; that's why ushers carry them shoulders height.

MTbowel

You're spot on joggerjayne. I've got this vision of a few hefty bearers carrying the cardboard one in heavy rain and the body dropping out the bottom!

tamborine

is it worth ordering a Lacrosse stick just for the packing JJ?

MTbowel

Tamborine, one of the selling points of these cardboard coffins is the fact that they're environmentally friendly, a concept that's more important in a burial than a cremation. As I said, the cardboard ones are indeed coffins in themselves and they are not inserts. The cardboard coffins can be buried in the same way as wooden coffins if the client wishes it so based upon environmental reasons or minimal cost.

tamborine

wysiwyg for burials; cardboard coffins are minimally cheaper than wood-chip; they all start at £1.5k retail.