Now this is morbid

partyguinness

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/27/colombia-coronavirus-cardboard-hospital-beds-coffins


Bloodly hell. You get to see and lie in your own coffin.

It's surely just another attempt to go viral..

topper75

Why would I bother doing it now? Plenty of time later like. As in, fuppin plenty.

BENDYBINN

topper75 wrote: »

Why would I bother doing it now? Plenty of time later like. As in, fuppin plenty.

Indeed, but it certainly does focus the mind...........

topper75

Yeah BENDYBINN I suppose that aspect would be helpful.

I always say - if you keep the non-negotiable certain event of your ultimate death high up in the mind you will live the best life.
If this helps people do that, then maybe it has its place.

Capt'n Midnight

Maybe it will get rid of all of those day time ads where OAP's are worried about the costs of their funerals.

B.A._Baracus

And what happens if water spills on the bed?

That don't look like laminated cardboard

Leg End Reject

I'd rather be left to die at home than have medical treatment lying in my potential coffin.

Tokyo

I knew a guy once who dug/stood in his own grave...


The link in the OP is morbid perhaps, but a practical solution nonetheless in a situation where death rates have spiraled out of control. Considering that previous solutions in times fo crisis have been mass graves where bodies have been unceremoniously buried, it seems like a reasonable compromise. Not to mention the fact that it's more a solution for a bed shortage than a coffin shortage.

Purple Mountain

I had relatives who were very devout and lived life for mass and nothing else really.
They actually bought and had erected their own headstones on their new grave plot (man and wife) years and years before they died (like maybe 20).
They even engraved something like 'In loving memory of'.
They're both dead now, buried there, and the children got the parent's names and dates etc engraved later.

touts

No more morbid than have a auld lad dressed all in black come in and chant something he calls "the last rites" over you.

Leg End Reject

touts wrote: »

No more morbid than have a auld lad dressed all in black come in and chant something he calls "the last rites" over you.

You can specify that you aren't religious and stop that.

The Mighty Quinn

Purple Mountain wrote: »

I had relatives who were very devout and lived life for mass and nothing else really.
They actually bought and had erected their own headstones on their new grave plot (man and wife) years and years before they died (like maybe 20).
They even engraved something like 'In loving memory of'.
They're both dead now, buried there, and the children got the parent's names and dates etc engraved later.

My father has his plot in grave yard bought where his parents are buried. It has the stone surround and chippings, but no headstone. He's be out cleaning his father's grave and he'd often pop down to his own then to give it a clean!!

completedit

touts wrote: »

No more morbid than have a auld lad dressed all in black come in and chant something he calls "the last rites" over you.

Edgy.


Atheists, when will they learn?

Stephen A Smith

That would give me the heebie-jeebies

arybvtcw0eolkf

I don't get why people are death and the thoughts of their own demise scary or something not to be spoken about.

If you're wondering about death, funerals, undetakers and prepping bodies I'd highly recommend subscribing to this channel, she's brilliant

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmqYy7d4q3I

She talks everything death and funerals to her ''deathlings'', as she describes her subscribers.

Slim Charles

completedit wrote: »

Edgy.


Atheists, when will they learn?

What should he/she learn, exactly?

partyguinness

Purple Mountain wrote: »

I had relatives who were very devout and lived life for mass and nothing else really.
They actually bought and had erected their own headstones on their new grave plot (man and wife) years and years before they died (like maybe 20).
They even engraved something like 'In loving memory of'.
They're both dead now, buried there, and the children got the parent's names and dates etc engraved later.

I have elderly relatives (my father's bachelor uncles all in the 80s and 90s) like that and my 86 yr old grandmother not much better.

They even volunteer at the local graveyard weeding and tending to graves etc- eff all else to do.

As my mother said: "They'll be spending enough time there before long. You are dead far longer than alive."

In the family plot there was originally 8 spaces and 6 have been taken up over the past 40 odd years. 2 spaces left but 3 left alive- it's like musical chairs to see how gets in first.

Purple Mountain

partyguinness wrote: »

I have elderly relatives (my father's bachelor uncles all in the 80s and 90s) like that and my 86 yr old grandmother not much better.

They even volunteer at the local graveyard weeding and tending to graves etc- eff all else to do.

As my mother said: "They'll be spending enough time there before long. You are dead far longer than alive."

In the family plot there was originally 8 spaces and 6 have been taken up over the past 40 odd years. 2 spaces left but 3 left alive- it's like musical chairs to see how gets in first.

Oh my God, that's too funny.
They might squash in the 3 yet!