What’s this craze for cuckoo coffins?
In the weird and wonderful world of crazy
coffins, getting buried has never been so much fun in Britain.
And the most popular funeral dirge is…
Fancy rolling up the aisle in a Rolls-Royce? Maybe it’s time to skip off in a pink ballet shoe? In the weird and wonderful world of crazy coffins, getting buried has never been so much fun in Britain.
For coffin-makers Vic Fearn & Company Limited are now doing a roaring trade in customized caskets for people who want to go out in style. The coffins, ranging from a giant electric guitar to a sports bag, have proved so popular that they even go out on tour to “Crazy Coffin” exhibitions around European art galleries.
The coffin-makers first took the zany path to death when a woman fan of the Red Arrows, the Royal Air Force’s aerial acrobatics team, asked to be buried in a model fighter.
“So we constructed this plane with folding wings like they have on aircraft carriers. The cockpit of a plane is more or less coffin-shaped so that made life easier,” said David Crampton, director of the 160-year-old company based in the central England town of Nottingham.
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Posted: Tue - February 20, 2007 at 09:02 AM