I saw a programme about those amazing coffins. When I'm awake at 3.00 in the morning, I will have a think about what shape I'd pick. I think it's in Nigeria, but it's traditional to bury the rich dead with shed loads of money - because they can. Being a cynic,I wonder how long before the cash is exhumed.
There was a small chateau in the Belgian village where we lived that was bought by a Brussels butcher to the rich and famous from Brussels so he could display all his sculptures collected over the decades. There was a permanent exhibit of Zimbabwean sculpture in stone and up-cycled metal bits and bobs, a musical sculpture gallery and temporary gallery which housed the most amazing array of Ghanaian coffins for about a year. Utterly fabulous.
The price of sculptures on sale was outrageous tho so I found another supplier and bought some Zimbabwean stuff at mates rates. She and her husband often visited Africa on business and came back with shed loads of art, bought to support the artists and then sold on at a small profit so they could fund the next purchases and shipment costs.
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"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
@raisingirl, I think the point being made was everything that is manufactured has a carbon debt, including fridges washing machine cars electric or not. The longer you keep it after a time the item itself is not contributing any more Co2 to the atmosphere only the fuel you put in. Electric cars start with more Co2 debt, because of what's in them , mostly the battery. Electric cars are about 30% heavier than conventional ones so are less efficient, more tyre and brake wear etc etc. Not all electricity generation is clean, not by a long way, so they are constantly adding to Co2 in spite of the claims. Housing adds more CO2 than most car usage, cement production is one of the dirtiest things in this respect but no-one is suggesting we stop that. His point was it's a false sop to the environmental issues to suggest we all scrap our existing cars and replace them with electric, it will make thing worse in the short to medium term. I don't agree with all of his arguments but we do need to think wider than just banning new petrol cars.
For £35.00 you can buy shroud material and do it yourself if you want to. you don’t need a funeral car, our undertaker would take the coffin in his estate car. we've buried people who had nothing and no mourners just two people from the office, it’s a very sad and lonely affair.
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Maybe so @Lyn but the deceased person really is beyond caring.
I have neither need , nor desire to expect folk to travel from all over the place to spend a day being thoroughly miserable . I'd much rather get them all together later and have some fun. IMHO it's just another way to suck max bucks from gullible consumers.
That's miserable though obelixx.a couple of years ago,I went to a local funeral of a lady found on the beach at Beachy Head,no cause of death could be determined,no finger prints,DNA,they couldn't identify here. I read in the local paper,she was being buried in a beautiful cemetery in Hailsham,and over a hundred complete strangers turned up to wish her well and see her off. Nothing religious,on a lovely summers day.
I imagine the hiatus can be what happens to the body between ‘expiry’ and cremation. I mean, you can’t just leave it in the garage if the weather’s not really chilly can you … and then how are you going to get it to the Crem? … strapped into the passenger seat? … back in the day I used to have a Volvo estate …. that would have been handy, but an Alfa MiTo ??? … and if I go first (which I probably will) OH only has his bike !!! … it seems that an undertaker may be needed somewhere in the process …
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
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I think it's in Nigeria, but it's traditional to bury the rich dead with shed loads of money - because they can.
Being a cynic,I wonder how long before the cash is exhumed.
The price of sculptures on sale was outrageous tho so I found another supplier and bought some Zimbabwean stuff at mates rates. She and her husband often visited Africa on business and came back with shed loads of art, bought to support the artists and then sold on at a small profit so they could fund the next purchases and shipment costs.
you don’t need a funeral car, our undertaker would take the coffin in his estate car.
we've buried people who had nothing and no mourners just two people from the office, it’s a very sad and lonely affair.
IMHO it's just another way to suck max bucks from gullible consumers.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.