Cowboy Coffins?

My wife gets a magazine called Cowboys & Indians, she likes all that southwest stuff. One of the advertizers there is for a cowboy coffin. Wooden box, instead of satin lining it has black & white cowhide inside.

So if you have a hankerin' for horses or a penchant for ponies, go to the big roundup in the sky in style!

My work computer does not allow access to a lot, this may or may not be the link.

http://www.cowboycoffin.com/

Dan

The website looks like it's more about the back to the basics pine box. After seeing a news segment on how some funeral homes are selling things like airbrushed steel coffins at crazy prices, I thoroughly approve. If we get to watch our funerals from Heaven, I'd rather know that my loved ones managed to pay for my funeral with plenty of money left over than be impressed with how much they spent on a casket they'll get to see for only a couple days before it gets buried.

$795 still seems a little steep for what $100 in lumber and an hour with a circular saw can produce. I mean - who am I trying to impress?

Were it me - I'd want to put on a show. Hire a band, get some catering... drinks. Lower me into a tank of piranha or have my body eaten by timber wolves in front of a crowd of bereaved onlookers. That leaves a legacy not soon forgotten.

Yeah when you get old just build a grassroots coffin. Maybe pick up a pre-used one that was only used at a funeral before a cremation, give it a Rustoleum paint job, strip out the interior for lightness and add a roll cage, rattle can on some racing stripes, add box flares and you're ready for the big track meet in the sky

I am hoping to be packed with explosives and blown up on a beach

Waldo, google whale explosion...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4096586/

I see you ending this exact way.

The video is awesome.

I wonder if they have an option for a "dork" leather interior.

Since you guys brought it up I have this sitting in my garage, well I had two but recently had to use one.

This was made by a family friend that has his own milling equipment. He went out collected the logs and cut the boards himself. The hardware on the side is hand forged iron and the handles on this one were actually made from horse shoes. The lining is just a simple cotton.

By law, you can't re-use a casket. And a lot of places won't let you be burried in a pine box. I plan on bypassing the whole mess, and getting cremated.

I've told my wife on numerous occasions that when I pass cremate me and put me in a Miller Lite tall boy can at the end of the bar. That's my idea of a funeral.

Oh, and open bar for only a hour, I know a lot of drunks. I don't want this shin-dig costing me a ton of money.

I want to be buried like Edward Abbey. His friends put him in a box and buried him in a national park, not sure which one. But it sounds like a great way to thumb my nose at the government one last time after I die.

rebelgtp wrote: The lining is just a simple cotton.

Am I the only one who was disappointed that it wasn't filled with cotton wadding?

I plan on not leaving any discernible remains.

I just went to a wake last week and they had a picture similar to something like this. The kids told me their Dad always wanted a Harley and they rented a setup similar to this one.

Somebody should put together some type of sports car hearse for us.

I'm going to be processed and canned.

Tuna-fish sized can-o-Shawn will be handed out to all my friends and loved ones at my funeral.

If they won't let me do that, I at least want three of my pallbearers to be midgets and three to be +6' tall.

Shawn

I'm going to Shawn's funeral. I want a can-o-Shawn. Although how can we tell it's really Shawn, and not some sort of filler meat? And will there be a best-before date?

I hope that when I go, there isn't enough of me to bury. I suspect a fine mist will do nicely.

Another vote for cremation. Land should be for the living. What's that great Rodney Dangerfield line from "Caddyshack"? "..golf courses and graveyards are the greatest wastes of prime real estate in the world."

Scatter half of me on Turn 5 at Road Atlanta, and pour the other half into Oregon Inlet back home.

somewhere here in NJ is a company that complies with all laws concerning funerals at sea. That is how I want to go. Weight me down, take me out, and dump me in the ocean. Recycling at it's finest

I'm going to have a "fun"eral. It's going to be at a Dave & Busters or something, and the tickets win my stuff. The bouncer is going to throw anyone one who has so much as a frown.

4eyes wrote: By law, you can't re-use a casket. And a lot of places won't let you be burried in a pine box. I plan on bypassing the whole mess, and getting cremated.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coffin#Cremation

Cremation

With the resurgence of cremation in the Western world, manufacturers have begun providing options for those who choose cremation. For a direct cremation a cardboard box is sometimes used. Those who wish to have a funeral visitation (sometimes called a viewing) or traditional funeral service will use a coffin of some sort. Some choose to use a coffin made of wood or other materials like particle board. Others will rent a regular casket for the duration of the services. These caskets have a removable bed and liner which is replaced after each use. There are also rental caskets with an outer shell that looks like a traditional coffin and a cardboard box that fits inside the shell. At the end of the services the inner box is removed and the deceased is cremated inside this box.

We rented coffins for my parent's funerals, it worked fine.

Damn right, there will be no weeping at my funeral. I want it to be more like a kegger.

I want to be cremated and my ashes scattered on a race track somewhere by the following method: 120 MPH, unscrew the lid and stick the jar up in the slipstream. I really mean it, that's going in my will.

Four years ago on his 75th birthday I gave my dad a book on building your own coffin. He loved it, he hasnt gotten around to dying yet so he hasnt started building his coffin yet. His father made it to a healthy 102.

He did tell me he wanted to be creamated and scattered in his garden, Have a big cooler of beer for the mourners. Then one day he and mom wanted me to go for a drive with them, They took me to check out the veterans cemetary in north Georgia. I had to tell him its a damn good thing he told me before he died. I would raised hell to scatter him in his garden.

mad_machine wrote: somewhere here in NJ is a company that complies with all laws concerning funerals at sea. That is how I want to go. Weight me down, take me out, and dump me in the ocean. Recycling at it's finest

Hmm..as much crab as this old coastal boy has eaten in his lifetime, perhaps I owe the tasty little bastards a meal or two..

Jensenman wrote: Damn right, there will be no weeping at my funeral. I want it to be more like a kegger. I want to be cremated and my ashes scattered on a race track somewhere by the following method: 120 MPH, unscrew the lid and stick the jar up in the slipstream. I really mean it, that's going in my will.

Might want to specify the car. If you try that in a Miata with the top down, you'll end up decorating the inside of the windshield and the dashboard.

On a related note, be careful when eating powdered donuts in a Miata with the top down...

I like this idea: http://www.kenoshanews.com/news/racing_in_peace_6494145.html