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Why do people hammer nails into coffins?

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    #32
    High energy
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    Gucky wrote: »
    I'm afraid to ask what you were doing in an 'undertakers shop', 'looking at coffins'?:eek:

    Maybe his relative died ? :rolleyes:


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    sashafierce
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    sashafierce
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    #35
    SuperInfinity
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    sashafierce wrote: »
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    Burying people may be more natural than you think. They think the Neanderthals and our ancient ancestors may have buried their dead.

    In what I read they seemed to suggest it was out of respect, however I've wondered if perhaps it's so predators won't come along and eat the dead carcass and get a "taste" for humans.


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    #36
    wonderfulname
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    SuperInfinity wrote: »
    Burying people may be more natural than you think. They think the Neanderthals and our ancient ancestors may have buried their dead.

    They cremated human remains too.


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    sashafierce
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    #38
    knird evol
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    sashafierce wrote: »
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    You don't have to be buried. You have options.

    You could for example be stuffed and embalmed. Your stuffed body could be mounted on a plinth(concrete, marble?) in your living room. For loved ones to remember you by.

    You can leave special instructions for your embalmer if you like. If you are a happy person for example you might like your remains to have a big smile or grin permanently afixed to your face so in death as in life happy.
    Big smile on you. Watching down on your family. For ever.


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    #39
    alwaysadub
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    sashafierce wrote: »
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    Funny,i hate the thought of being cremated!
    I've told my family if they cremate me i'll come back and haunt them.:pac:


    So for future reference-if you're reading this and i've just died i want to be buried.


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    #40
    Overheal
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    KeithM89 wrote: »
    Prevent a Zombie Invasion... Duh :)
    Wouldn't they use screws then?


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    #41
    Pete M.
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    DeepSleeper wrote: »
    Who uses nails to secure the lid on a coffin? I thought they were screwed down (to prevent lid falling off as mentioned...)

    I know I'd prefer to have a final screw in my coffin, as opposed to a nail...

    Associative Necrophilia I suppose you'd call it.

    But when I do die, just throw me in the brown bin and I'll be happy, dead but happy.


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    coffee_cake
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    i want to be cremated


    apparently - not that i want this - they can turn your remains into a diamond


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    #43
    citizen_p
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    1 screws...
    2 to prevent the lid from sliding off when lifted or being lowered.
    no one wants to see grandads body sliding out of the coffin.
    itd be like trying to put a gold fish back in his bowl in the panic. (minus the wriggling of the body etc...)


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    #44
    easyeason3
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    Jesus, this thread is so depressing & morbid that I'm almost sorry I didn't read yet another boring thread on the economy.

    I hope when it's my turn to be put in a coffin I'll be a very old woman with very few regrets & that I haven't been ravaged by a horrible disease.


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    #45
    kylith
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    High energy wrote: »
    On a similar note, why do people purchase coffins for their relatives to be cremated in ?
    Why do people buy fancy coffins anyway? It's always struck me as a criminal waste to pay thousands for something you're just going to stick in a hole in the ground. If one of my family did that I'd haunt them out of sheer principal.


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    sashafierce
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    #47
    knird evol
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    sashafierce wrote: »
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    It could be integrated with christmas decorations - flashing lights, tinsel.

    You could build a nativity scene around it actually - stable, three wise men, stuffed corpse, lambs, shepards


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    hardCopy
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    knird evol wrote: »
    You don't have to be buried. You have options.

    You could for example be stuffed and embalmed. Your stuffed body could be mounted on a plinth(concrete, marble?) in your living room. For loved ones to remember you by.

    You can leave special instructions for your embalmer if you like. If you are a happy person for example you might like your remains to have a big smile or grin permanently afixed to your face so in death as in life happy.
    Big smile on you. Watching down on your family. For ever.

    That would be hilarious, I may have to add that as a condition in my will. Whoever wants the money has to have my body in their front porch.


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    #49
    kylith
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    knird evol wrote: »
    You don't have to be buried. You have options.

    You could for example be stuffed and embalmed. Your stuffed body could be mounted on a plinth(concrete, marble?) in your living room. For loved ones to remember you by.

    You can leave special instructions for your embalmer if you like. If you are a happy person for example you might like your remains to have a big smile or grin permanently afixed to your face so in death as in life happy.
    Big smile on you. Watching down on your family. For ever.
    One of the only things I ever enjoyed in Jackass was the episode where Johnny Knocksville went around to taxidermists with an old lady he claimed was his granny to see if any of them would stuff her and mount her in an armchair upon her death. IIRC, only one would, but they said they'd have to check the law first.


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    4zn76tysfajdxp
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    knird evol wrote: »
    You don't have to be buried. You have options.

    I'd like my remains to be bloodily shot into the side of a primary school. To freak 'em kids out well good.


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    #51
    liah
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    This is the second time I've made reference to them today but Penn & Teller Bullsh!t's Death, Inc. ep is kinda an interesting take on the whole "business" of dying.


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    #52
    Duggy747
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    If I die around Halloween then I'll allow my body to be hung out the front of the house to spook the kids.

    Attaching strings to make me move is optional.


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    #53
    kfallon
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    knird evol wrote: »
    It could be integrated with christmas decorations - flashing lights, tinsel.

    You could build a nativity scene around it actually - stable, three wise men, stuffed corpse, lambs, shepards

    Can you get them to give you a permanent erection???

    *cue the stiff jokes*

    :pac:


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