Would you rent a coffin?

[Dawg]

Just me on the whole cryo thing then...

Just me on the head on a pole thing then...could you rent the pole?

 

[Zeal]

Not read the whole thread...


1) If I helping pay for a loved ones funeral. I'd be willing to pay for a 'nice' looking coffin... not stupid amounts of cash though!

2) For my self, I wouldn't want people to spend a ton of money on a box what's either going to be burnt... or have mud chucked all over it.
Hell, keep me frozen till 5th November! I'll happily go away with fireworks on top of a bonfire!

 

[british steve]

Only if I throught the mother in law would use it !

 

[jelly3]

I have changed my mine about renting this coffin. But I will only rent it as an art installation for my living room and of course it must come with a none-ripe body.

 

[papverpoppies]

Do what the heck when I am gone, I would rather have the money spent on me when alive, flowers, choccies, wine!

I think they should offer cheap double services (BOGOF) - they are double layering in some places anyway, and even digging up (I believe) so what is sacred about burial anymore - total waste of money.

Be nice to the folks when they are alive, and then you will not feel guilty about burying them in a fruit crate.

Poppy xx

 

[nextdayprint]

Do what the heck when I am gone, I would rather have the money spent on me when alive, flowers, choccies, wine!

I think they should offer cheap double services (BOGOF) - they are double layering in some places anyway, and even digging up (I believe) so what is sacred about burial anymore - total waste of money.

Be nice to the folks when they are alive, and then you will not feel guilty about burying them in a fruit crate.

Poppy xx

Haha, yeah well I guess it's better than New Orleans, where every time it floods the coffins all used to pop up out of the ground and float around - hence why they "bury" them above ground there... not that it helped when Katrina hit :S

 

[nextdayprint]

Oh also the strangest funeral rights I have ever come across are those of Madagascar where the tombs are often shaped like cars, planes, buses or other forms of transport to represent how the deceased gets to heaven. The locals also remove the dead from the tombs every few years and rewrap their shrouds, dance with them, feast, etc..

 

[Zeal]

Now you've shared that link 'nextdayprint'..

I've changed my view!

I want to go in a tank, alien space ship, Bugatti or a very large robot!

 

[nextdayprint]

I want to go in a tank, alien space ship, Bugatti or a very large robot!

Oh... Very large robot, now that would be a good one Not so sure about the whole dragging my corpse out every few years thing, but the robot could be entertaining.

 

[peebles]

What a weird thread.

Personally, I'm with the 'spend my coffin money on a great big p*ss up and burn me' You must burn me, I have a fear of being buried alive.

But you guys are forgetting one major thing....

Who is going to rent out these coffins for you? You will need to develop good relationships with funeral directors. They will make a few quid on renting out the coffin, but they will make more on selling them.

My husband's father died suddenly a few years ago and everyone was in so much shock. Being the daughter in law I didn't know him as well and looked after everyone during that difficult time. But, being stand offish, I could see quite objectively how it all worked from a business point of view.

Don't get me wrong the funeral directors were excellent, very sympathetic and kind of 'knew' what to say at the right time. You need someone like that to organise the funeral because your head is so battered with the loss. But, how much money do they make? Do they persuade you to go for the
a) not so good looking but cheap coffin,
b) middle of the road, nice and smart but a little bit more expensive
c) the really really nice one which costs thousands

I would say most people choose b. And while I was observing I got the feeling that everyone wanted the funeral director to choose and get on with it. No-one was bothered they just wanted him back!

I don't think they would have chosen to rent a coffin, but that was mostly my mother in law, with her traditional views. If, the funeral director had said, 'have this one and you'll spend £3,500 or rent this one for £500 and you can each have a grand to spend on what you want' I'm not sure it would have worked. With a clear head, yes, but at that horrible time you don't have a clear head. You just want him back.

So what I'm trying to say is that whatever the funeral director says, goes, generally. Everyone agrees with him/her.

 

[DaveSUK]

I wouldn't personally be bothered if I got stuck in the ground in a bin bag but I wouldn't do it for any of my family.

 

[nextdayprint]

What a weird thread.

Personally, I'm with the 'spend my coffin money on a great big p*ss up and burn me' You must burn me, I have a fear of being buried alive.

But you guys are forgetting one major thing....

Who is going to rent out these coffins for you? You will need to develop good relationships with funeral directors. They will make a few quid on renting out the coffin, but they will make more on selling them.

So what I'm trying to say is that whatever the funeral director says, goes, generally. Everyone agrees with him/her.

I have little experience in the area, but have seen that my customers in the industry make a very good living. I am not interested in entering it myself any time soon but was just thinking of how in South Africa, where I am originally from, coffins are rented so that people who really have no money have a better option. As for public funded funerals I think they should be done in this method, but then that is only my opinion.

 

[nextworld]

Why is there so much doubt about this?
Why do we have to burn wooden boxes which cost an arm and a leg?
Why do we have to endure the 'services' of a funeral director, i.e. salespeople who can't wait to pull out their 'catalogue' and get you to spend ridiculous cash on a box? Teak or willow anyone?
Cashing in on grieving!

We buy second-hand prams so what is so awful about a used coffin? :|
Great business idea for soemone, IMHO!

 

[The Jollyroger]

Why not? at the end of the day its a disposal of remains .Also its the way of the future saves many resources and who really benefits on that "Rolls Royce" of a coffin no-one but the undertaker.Who play on grief.
Me I`m leaving my remains to medical research.......give em all a good laugh but maybe give someone else life.

 

[iArtist]

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?

I have zero problem with being buried this way as the other way is a complete and utter waste or resources, money and time and is simply illogical. Re burying a loved one this way if I knew they would have objected when alive I'd have honoured their wishes not to be buried this way in death.

 

[Tabby Cat]

I wouldnt care, just get a sack and throw me into the ground! I would prefer my family to spend money on enjoying themselves not on grands for a coffin.Waste of money.

 

[nextdayprint]

For those of you who are so shocked by the idea and think it is disrespectful to the dead; how different is it really to the current practice in crematoriums of removing all the metal parts once the coffin is out of sight?

The coffin then doesnt look so fancy, has been interfered with and a few minutes later is burnt either way.

 

[Moneyman]

I am pretty sure you can get them with a liner now for cremation. Certainly they do it abroad. It is not something the funeral parlors will push as they make a very nice markup for the boxes but they will do it anyway. They make very little for the quick nomates sendoff.
The thing to check is municipal funerals.

personally i am for paid mourners (i believe the Romans had young ladies who would "rip their clothes assunder" with grief and it cerainly upped the attendance).

 

Why is there so much doubt about this?
Why do we have to burn wooden boxes which cost an arm and a leg?

No no they burn the whole body.

Earl

 

[MyAccountantOnline]

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

My sentiments entirely.

Thankfully the Government will help with funeral costs too if necessary.

 

[Tim at Tall Tanks]

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.

How about a solid plywood base for the coffin liner then all you do is raise the expensive lid bit up after the mouners have left and leave the cardboard liner + base down there. Everyone's a winner!

 

[woodss]

I want to be strapped to a rocket and launched as far away as possible. Bonus points if it blows up a mile high. What a way to go

 

[MerchantServicesBDM]

The fact is that funeral directors have a difficult enough job collecting monies owned from grieving relatives who feel that they have to splash out or risk losing face. I think it's a fantastic idea and wish you all the best.

 

I want to be strapped to a rocket and launched as far away as possible.

You may get a lot of support for that idea.:|

Earl

 

[FirstClassVirtualOffice]

Do crem staff even have legal permission to remove dead bodies from coffins at all? I mean, usually once its sealed down that's it....isn't it? Or do they already whip the body out and flog the coffin on ebay?

 

[avantime]

The way I look at it is that by the time you're ready for a coffin you can't possibly own it anyway!! But you can take it with you I suppose!!??

 

[Talay]

Check my pockets for cash, put me in a bin bag and take me to the tip.

 

[outventor]

I don't care when I'm dead.