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Mary-Jane
Joined: 13 Jan 2005
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Location: Ceredigion, West Wales
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| mochyn wrote: |
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I must say, I rather fancy the idea of commissioning Mochyn to knit me a coffin  |
Send me your measurements... |
 *Meep* I'll have to lose weight first... |
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Nick
Joined: 02 Nov 2004
Posts: 17540
Location: Hereford
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You'll lose weight after death. Perhaps just delay the funeral a few weeks? |
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phil_green
Joined: 28 Jan 2010
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They're fantastic, I've seen one at the Great Yorkshire Show and was blown away. They're very strong - fab concept. If you google 'woollen coffins' they're everywhere. |
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vegplot
Joined: 19 Apr 2007
Posts: 11132
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All I want to be is dead before I'm buried. Properly dead. At least in a shroud you'd go quickly and not wake up a few days later wondering why it's dark and cramped. The thought alone scares the willy's out of me. |
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mochyn
Joined: 21 Dec 2004
Posts: 13965
Location: mid-Wales
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There was a Victorian invention with a cable from the coffin to a small bell in the headstone. That's what you need. |
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gardening-girl
Joined: 25 Feb 2009
Posts: 1025
Location: Ilminster
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I rather like the idea of an eco-pod.I have told my OH, no religious service,bury me in a woodland burial site, and then go and have a good meal somewhere.
OH wants a willow coffin.His music of choice at the crem is The Demon Fire Starter Both boys think this is hysterically funny.
Lots of our residents familys are opting for private cremations, then a service later. |
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The.Grange
Joined: 13 Sep 2009
Posts: 933
Location: Derbyshire
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| Posted: Thu Jan 28, 10 8:45 pm Post subject: |
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| mochyn wrote: |
| There was a Victorian invention with a cable from the coffin to a small bell in the headstone. That's what you need. |
that works perfectly well only if there is someone wandering the graveyard listening out for it
i don't want to be buried or burnt, not into being frozen or blasted off into space, buried at sea seems a contradictory statement so i'm being stuffed in a stone box on the surface it's already all written into my will obviously in more detail and slightly more technical |
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Dr Rob
Joined: 04 Sep 2008
Posts: 273
Location: Moylgrove, nr Cardigan, Pembs
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John Seymour was buried in a rolled up carpet because the coffin ordered hadn't arrived.
Might be a rural myth though. |
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judith
Downsizer Moderator
Joined: 16 Dec 2004
Posts: 17811
Location: Montgomeryshire
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I hope it was hessian-backed. |
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Bulgarianlily
Joined: 01 Jun 2008
Posts: 908
Location: South West Mountains of Bulgaria
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sean
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Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 28908
Location: North Devon
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Freezing people and using liquid nitrogen is pretty energy intensive. And a magnetic field isn't going to extract mercury.
Looks daft to me. |
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Bulgarianlily
Joined: 01 Jun 2008
Posts: 908
Location: South West Mountains of Bulgaria
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I am thinking of songs for the funeral.
All shook up
Good vibrations
I'm in pieces, bits and pieces
anything by Coldplay.... |
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Frewen Feltmaker
Joined: 08 Sep 2005
Posts: 7706
Location: Suffolk
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I've changed my mind - why bury perfectly good felt?
Medical science can have a laugh at my body instead ! |
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Slim
Joined: 05 Mar 2006
Posts: 3117
Location: New England (In the US of A)
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I've always wished it were legal for my body to be tossed (ceremoniously  ) into the woods for critters to chew on and then to feed the soil, but as I think about it more and more with a greater emphasis on my ego, a viking funeral sounds lovely. I'll need to train some friends in flammable archery...
Just picture a longboat made of Vermont hardwoods being pushed out into Lake Champlain... |
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bodger
Joined: 23 May 2006
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My MIL used to knit coffins and give them to me. She called them jumpers  They were always too big and the sleaves so long that they almost touched the ground. |
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