The world’s weirdest coffins
Vic Fearn & Company Limited make the world’s weirdest coffins, and business has never been so good for the 160-year old company based in Nottingham, central England. They make 20,000 conventional coffins a year, but recently things have begun to change, for better or worse.
These guys are truly the champions of the spirit of anything goes when it comes to making coffins, meaning this is definitely too progressive to be accepted here in Malaysia, let alone in Sabah.
There’s a mind boggling array of things one can choose to roll up the aisle, and later on get buried in, including the following:
A bench, complete with cushion, although I doubt it if anyone would want to sit on it!
More weird coffin pictures after the jump.
A canal boat:
A rubbish bin:
A skateboard!
A ski sled, although this one’s a bit unnerving – you can see the corpse’s feet!
A cork opener complete with a giant cork:
A Louis Vuitton handbag:
A pink ballet shoe:
A giant electric guitar:
A sports bag for the consummate cricket fan:
These strange coffins have turned out to be so popular that they “Crazy Coffin” exhibitions have even been held at art galleries.
It sounds rather perverse, but getting buried has never been so much fun for those who want to “go out in style.”
How did they get started? Apparently a lady’s who’s a fan of the Red Arrows, the British RAF’s aerial acrobatic team triggered it – she asked to be buried in a model fighter plane. Next, a man who wanted a canal boat as his coffin.
Note: all pictures courtesy of msn.com and bbc.co.uk
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