Would you rent a coffin?

[nextdayprint]

Was wondering how many of you would consider renting a coffin if you had a loved one die and were somewhat short on cash?

This is relatively common in poorer countries like South Africa. Basically the coffin has a cheap undecorated box inside which is removed behind the curtain before cremation or at the point of burial - though as I understand it it is mainly used in cremation.

Would you be upset if you were buried in this way and more importantly would you consider burying a loved one in this way?

 

[Matt1959]

dont think the cost of the coffin if its a basic one, adds to the funeral cost that much does it?

 

Cardboard coffins £25 a go.

One just hopes it does not rain.:|

Ask me how I feel about it after the funeral.?

Earl

 

[Scott-Copywriter]

If a loved one of mine dies, the least I can do is bury them in a respectful looking coffin.

The only case where I would approve is if someone's so poor that they literally cannot even afford a basic coffin, so it's a choice between burying them in a wooden box or burying them with absolutely no coffin at all.

 

[Matt1959]

coffins - a big rip off. The wood isnt wood and the brass handles are not brass

anyway, how does having a cheap cardboard liner work when you're lowering the proper coffin into the hole in the ground:| ie it can only work with cremations....

 

[Scott-Copywriter]

I wouldn't mind it so much when it comes to cremation. There's little point in spending hundreds of pounds for a coffin when it's going to be burned to ashes mere hours later.

In today's society I wouldn't be surprised if a 'save the trees' angle is introduced when it comes to coffins at some point.

 

[Dogsbody]

What a good idea, I'm up for it.

How much would it cost? Or as Theo would say 'How much of my childrens hard earnt inheritance' would it save?

 

[snakeeyes121]

If a loved one of mine dies, the least I can do is bury them in a respectful looking coffin.

The only case where I would approve is if someone's so poor that they literally cannot even afford a basic coffin, so it's a choice between burying them in a wooden box or burying them with absolutely no coffin at all.

But is cases like that theres help from councils and you can claim a funeral payment from the DWP if you are on a low income or benefits, if no family members are willing to pay then the council will stump up the cost for a basic funeral and try to recover the costs from the deceased estate

The only people who would do this are those hippy tree huggers...................

 

[Ashley_Price]

I don't see how it would work in a burial - all the mourners standing at the graveside and the vicar says "Right, lads, whip the body out!" Doesn't really help the situation does it? (I know that's an exaggeration but you get my drift - it would be a bit like a magic act of how do you get the body into the grave and have the family throw the first clods of earth on to it without it causing offence.)

As for a cremation - and as someone who only a couple of months ago attended one (my sister died of skin cancer) - the coffin goes behind a curtain anyway, so I guess it wouldn't matter.

 

[Dawg]

Why on earth not? What is the point of putting an expensive box in the ground to rot? Or burning it?

Complete waste of resources to inflate the egos of those still alive, (Look! I can afford a £4k coffin for Uncle Toby); and respect, how does using the death of someone to show off display respect?

This isn't a 'hippy tree hugger' attitude either, just one that can't see why people waste so much money and so many resources on a ceremony that, like weddings, has been over commercialized.

Me? Burn me in the cheapest box available and split any money between champagne for my friends, and a donation to those still alive and less fortunate.

 

[David Griffiths]

Agree completely with Dawg. Cardboard coffin for me, if they can't find a used orange box that'll stand the weight.

 

[kontracta_com]

Having been given a somewhat eye-opening tour of a crematorium I was at for an internal audit for once, I don't think I'd want too much to be shelled out for box for me. For example the handles get removed after the service anyway - other things may do too but by then I think they had noticed I had gone quite pale and aborted the tour for me.

On a slightly different note, it probably depends whether any of your relatives want to stash away any untaxed cash too....

http://www.accountancyage.com/accountancyage/news/2267027/hmrc-uncovers-untaxed-money

 

[Asholay]

I'm with Dawg's train of thought as well... respect for someone is best shown when they're alive!

 

[nextdayprint]

I also feel that the cheaper the better and hope that my loved ones burn me in a cardboard box/plywood box. In fact it would be kind of nice if they all just scrawled messages on it first -like you do on a pot for broken limbs- giving them the chance to say their final farewells. I really hope nobody is insane enough to rent limos and the like for my funeral, just burn me, say your goodbyes and as Dawg said, go have a drink on me.

 

[harryboon]

just throw me into the sea, or burn me - whatever is cheaper

 

[Investors-Wanted]

The only advantage I can see of hiring a coffin is that hopefully it will be broken in. hehe

 

[silvermusic]

I find the whole idea repulsive.

 

[Investors-Wanted]

Joking aside, I would not think there would be a market for coffin hire. I have just searched for prices for a coffin and compare to the whole process of dealing with a funeral, the price for the coffin is quite low.

Coffin Pine £300
Coffin Luxury £750
Coffin Willow £1000

Most people like myself have life insurance so they don't need to worry about the cost of a coffin.​

I think this idea is a non starter.

But...

I personally would use one as this would be a talking point, the people attending my funeral would say he was so tight, even in death.​

 

[davwik]

I have today instructed my solicitor that upon my death to liquidate all mys assets and to construct a paper coffin with said funds,then I am to be cremated, stops all arguments,beats the government and I take it all with me! hehe!!

 

[Matt1959]

Joking aside, I would not think there would be a market for coffin hire. I have just searched for prices for a coffin and compare to the whole process of dealing with a funeral, the price for the coffin is quite low.

Coffin Pine £300
Coffin Luxury £750
Coffin Willow £1000

Most people like myself have life insurance so they don't need to worry about the cost of a coffin.​

I think this idea is a non starter.

But...

I personally would use one as this would be a talking point, the people attending my funeral would say he was so tight, even in death.​

if a "pine" coffin is £300, then how much are you saving once you pay rental cost £150? £200? hardly seems worth it.

Not sure that most people regard a poncy funeral as a chance to show off more the satisfaction that you are giving the deceased the best possible send off - ie its for for them..

 

[nextdayprint]

if a "pine" coffin is £300, then how much are you saving once you pay rental cost £150? £200? hardly seems worth it.

Not sure that most people regard a poncy funeral as a chance to show off more the satisfaction that you are giving the deceased the best possible send off - ie its for for them..

Why should the rental not be £50, I mean it is generally only for half a day/ a day? It means people who are hardup can get their beloved in a nice box and not feel guilty about that.

As an earlier response points out, they cannibalise the coffins before burning, so what difference does it make?

Once I'm dead I doubt I'll care much what send off you give me

 

[Scott-Copywriter]

In fact, something else has put me right off the idea which I didn't even think about. There's no way I'd want the previous dead person to be lying in the coffin for hours, then have him removed, then have the coffin sprayed down with some Dettox and then have my loved one put inside. The least I'm going to do is give them their very own coffin which hasn't been shared with potentially dozens or even hundreds of other deceased people. The thought is quite repulsive.

 

[nextdayprint]

In fact, something else has put me right off the idea which I didn't even think about. There's no way I'd want the previous dead person to be lying in the coffin for hours, then have him removed, then have the coffin sprayed down with some Dettox and then have my loved one put inside. The least I'm going to do is give them their very own coffin which hasn't been shared with potentially dozens or even hundreds of other deceased people. The thought is quite repulsive.

Wow, didnt think of that, they might catch something

But seriously its a box within a box and for me, I dont care, though I would prefer to not even have the expense of renting a coffin spent on me. Just sling me in a cardboard box, and burn me

 

[Dawg]

In fact, something else has put me right off the idea which I didn't even think about. There's no way I'd want the previous dead person to be lying in the coffin for hours, then have him removed, then have the coffin sprayed down with some Dettox and then have my loved one put inside. The least I'm going to do is give them their very own coffin which hasn't been shared with potentially dozens or even hundreds of other deceased people. The thought is quite repulsive.

Never know what they might catch, eh? Be the end of them.

It's all going towards a Daily Mail headline:

"Coffin not cleaned after immigrant family with Aids scrounged grant to rent it for half an hour"

Repulsed? I was sick to me stomach that me cousin's roll ups got damp in that coffin due to it not being cleaned proper. He always wanted a decent send off like and wanted to be buried wif 'is fags. And those scroungers got a grant 'n' all but when we applied for a titanium coffin so we could burn him and still be safe when his heart pace-thingy exploded like, the bleedin' council said no. Discrimina shun innit? Shouldn't be allowed.

Thinking about it I think I quite fancy my head on a pole as my parting gesture....is that still allowed?

 

[Asholay]

In fact, something else has put me right off the idea which I didn't even think about. There's no way I'd want the previous dead person to be lying in the coffin for hours, then have him removed, then have the coffin sprayed down with some Dettox and then have my loved one put inside. The least I'm going to do is give them their very own coffin which hasn't been shared with potentially dozens or even hundreds of other deceased people. The thought is quite repulsive.

It'll cost extra to be cleaned with Dettox I'm afraid...

 

[ThePublisher]

We had a cardboard coffin for my father last year. I can't remember how much it cost, but it was way more than £25 (several hundred) and more expensive than the cheapest wooden one, but he'd always said when he died to stick him in a cardboard box next to the bins for the binmen to take away.

We had him cremated as I don't think the binmen would have taken him as they only take cardboard if its torn up and fits inside a recycling bag.

 

Was wondering how many of you would consider renting a coffin if you had a loved one die and were somewhat short on cash?

This is relatively common in poorer countries like South Africa. Basically the coffin has a cheap undecorated box inside which is removed behind the curtain before cremation or at the point of burial - though as I understand it it is mainly used in cremation.

Would you be upset if you were buried in this way and more importantly would you consider burying a loved one in this way?

Sorry, i most certainly would not rent a coffin under any circumstance !

 

[Peter Bowen]

I've left instructions to be strapped to my longboard with duct tape and sent off on the outgoing tide.

 

[jelly3]

My mum was buried in January & the coffin cost 3k. She spent 35 years putting money into a special account just for her funeral, (ceremony and do) to her a cardboard coffin would have been a complete insult.

I personally would be happy to leave my body to entomology; any other medical science, so no coffin required; I certainly do not wish to be cremated and have spoken about this as numerously as I can to those who are most likely to make the decision.
The problem with this is they are all substiantially older than me, but you never know do you.

If on the slim possibility that medical science does not want my lovely body, a burlap sack or cardboard coffin would suffice. But I do have a slight urge to be stuffed. (Not joking).

 

[Scott-Copywriter]

I'll be cryogenically frozen thank you very much.

 

[Jeff FV]

Put me in the wheely bin and the bin men can take me away. I'll know nothing about it and it'll save my children a few quid.

(Got to hope, tho', that I don't shuffle off this mortal coil on a Friday after the bins came that morning - I might begin to hum a little after 2 weeks waiting for the next collection.)

 

[christian_d]

Ive been on this forum for about a weeks or so. Apart from learning that Sirearl spends half his life on here, Ive also learnt that folk will do almost anything to make some cash. This forum is just plain crazy, which amazingly makes me want to stick around for at least another week.

But I would never.. ever rent a freekin coffin?

 

[nextdayprint]

Ive been on this forum for about a weeks or so. Apart from learning that Sirearl spends half his life on here, Ive also learnt that folk will do almost anything to make some cash. This forum is just plain crazy, which amazingly makes me want to stick around for at least another week.

But I would never.. ever rent a freekin coffin?

It does have a way of dragging you in - the forum not the coffin

As for the coffin, horses for courses, my friend, horse for courses

 

[Frimley111R]

CBA to read the whole thread. In answer to your question I'd say it is a great idea for many of the reasons mentioned on the first page. Why burn a nice coffin? More envirnomentally friendly, cheaper for low income people/councils etc.

By the way, did you ever see the 'picture' ones on one of the foreign Dragon's Dens?

 

[nextdayprint]

So it seems that if we exclude the few fence sitters, about twice as many of us wouldnt rent a coffin as would... I guess the next test would be to see the religious breakdown of all those who answered

 

[jelly3]

So it seems that if we exclude the few fence sitters, about twice as many of us wouldnt rent a coffin as would... I guess the next test would be to see the religious breakdown of all those who answered

Previously extremely religious, not religious now, as I near death in about 4-6 decades time, expect me to get more religious once again.

 

[iArtist]

I am not at all sentimental about how I am buried and would prefer to be cremated in the least costly manner. I believe my 'memory' lives on in those remaining not my rotting corpse.

I wouldn't rent a coffin as that's also a waste of money. I'm quite happy to be seen in some basic coffin.

Re burying others. I would want to carry out their wishes and if they'd expressed before death that they wanted a flash doo and I could afford it, then that is what I'd do for them.

 

So it seems that if we exclude the few fence sitters, about twice as many of us wouldnt rent a coffin as would... I guess the next test would be to see the religious breakdown of all those who answered

Monday agnostic

tuesday catholic

wed athiest

Thursday Budist

Friday Muslim

Saturday Jewish.

Sunday Day off.

Hope that helps.

Earl

 

[herodigital]

some of the topics on this forum are proving to be epic - where else would i be asked if i would rent a coffin?

lol, no i certainly wouldn't

 

[Scott-Copywriter]

Just me on the whole cryo thing then...