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What’re You Up to in That Coffin? Oh, Just Chillin’

Gizmodo US Edition — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 23:00:00 +0000

Air-conditioned coffins are all the rage now in Serbia, where they keep bodies looking extra fresh. I can understand how people can’t live without their A/C, but really, they need it when they’re dead too?

I guess if you want to be buried in style and comfort, you’ll need one of these suckers. Sign me up, because I sure don’t want to be sweating bullets in my coffin. You know what, might as well throw in some Doritos and an Xbox in there while you’re at it. [Daily Star via Crave]

Shelves for Life: Even Death Won’t Do You Part

Andi Wang — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 03:20:13 +0000

Designed to make “stronger emotional relationships with our belongings,” Shelves for Life is a bookcase-slash-coffin that holds your personal possessions in life and your person—corpse—in death.

These plywood, floor-standing shelves are meant to be self-assembled, which makes us wonder: How can you reassemble your shelf to resemble your coffin if you’re already dead? Ideal for psychics and vampires only, if you’re mortal and boring, make sure your will specifically states that the shelf is to go with you—not for $US5 at a garage sale. [Shelves for Life via Like Cool]

Be Buried In an iPhone, Vista or Boobies-Inspired Coffin

Jason Chen — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:15:00 +0000

A company called Creative Coffins offers a service where you can choose themed caskets designed however you like, leading the nerds at T3 to mock up some interesting ones with the concept. Would you want to be buried in an iPhone casket? A Vista casket? How about GTA4, Halo, or an SNES one with an eject button on the side? If these are too tasteless for you, you could easily design your own and have the company plaster it along the exterior. We’d probably choose the Goatse design as a metaphor for the gaping maw of hell we’re undoubtedly headed for after making poop jokes on Giz for more than two years. [T3]

Guy’s Beer Can Coffin: Travel to The Afterlife in Drunken Stlye

Gizmodo US Edition — Tue, 06 May 2008 11:39:32 +0000

“The only way you can become a legend is in your coffin,” said Bette Davis. Perhaps Bill Bramanti has heard this, perhaps not— one thing’s for sure, his coffin may be his mark on history. He loves Pabst Blue Ribbon beer so much that he’s going to be buried in a coffin labelled just like a can of it. In fact, Bill’s already had the casket made and has even tried it out for size. Until he’s permanently resident though, it’s serving as a beer cooler for… Pabst Blue Ribbon beer of course. A coffin shaped like your favourite beverage? That’s consumer-brand dedication, right there folks. So, tell us in the comments: what novelty coffin would you choose? [USA Today]

Mourn Your Wedding Ring Properly When Divorce Takes It’s Hold

Nick Broughall — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 02:13:17 +0000

I have no idea why I’d be posting this, considering I am currently two weeks out from my own marriage. It kind of seems a bit, well, negative.

Still, it’s funny in a morbid, cynical way. It’s fairly self-explanatory – it’s a coffin for your wedding ring after you ~~decide to~~ get divorced.

Each coffin comes with an engraved message of ~~bitterness and hatred~~ mourning, which you can select from a number of pre-written alternatives or write your own.

At US$30, it’s a pretty cheap way of saying goodbye to your marriage. If you need to do that kind of thing, or can’t fathom the idea of pawning your ring off on ebay.

[Wedding Ring Coffin via Styledash]

Star Trek Coffin Warps Your Corpse To the Final Nerd Frontier

Brian Lam — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 17:33:43 +0000

Eternal Image, makers of afterlife geek vessels, released a near final design of their Star Trek casket based on the “Photon Torpedo” design from STII: Wrath of Khan. The piano black coffin is complete with Federation insignia on the inside, and handles for when the ensigns load your geek corpse into the airlock. [Eternal Image via Geekologie, Star Trek Urn]