Here is shortly about something I found in Aftenposten :
... in 2002 17-year old boy was buried in Vaalerenga church. His coffin was tagged by his friends, because the dead boy was a tagger (graffiti artist). It was just one example for non-traditional coffins that have been used for burials in Oslo. And even though the majority still prefers traditional burials, when a relative has got a special will one tries to fulfill it. So nowadays people also can choose amoung bigger range of coffins. “The possible reason for it is to make the whole ceremony more personal. The choice of coffins can be one of the ways to do it,”- says Gunnar Hammersmark.
Here come some coffin design offers from Svanholm firm in Trondheim
By the way the price of one coffin like this might be between 5000 and 10000 NOK
(02.03.2009: 1 USD = 6,75 NOK . Do the math!)
So… where one of those coffins might take us?
… to a better world or something ???
Hey! Never seen something like this ever…wonder what I should have on my coffin? Plain wood doesn’t cut it anymore…maybe I’ll get a Spongebob painted on the sides. How can you send Spongebob to hell?
Spongebob? hehe! Good idea! Oh! I´ve got one more: the portrait of a person you hate… And if you plan to go to hell in a fancy coffin, you´d better start saving money!
Well… I had never heard about this kind of stuff until I read the article yesterday… So I´m new to it… The whole things seems a little weird to me…
🙂