So what do you call a coffin with a hinge?
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Cofasket or Casoffin
TIL
Me and my casket with an unhinged lid: Woooo! 🤪 *arm falls out*
I want my body to be hooked up to a bunch of explosives and so during my funeral I can blow up and shower everyone with my guts.
i want a body double in my casket to get out in there middle of the funeral and run away into the nearest forest without an explanation
I want a sarcophagus.
I'm going to try to make sure my remains are never discovered.
Reserved for gods and nuclear reactors.
what about nuclear gods?
Nuclear reactors are a kind of manmade god. Only created using powerful alchemy (enrichment) and incantation (extensive startup procedure). Once created, requires constant attention (worship). Imbued with immense and near limitless power. Capable of releasing an unseen, unstoppable, and deadly curse when allowed to go rogue. Venerated by some, Feared by many, and truly understood only by a select few priests.
That casket is clearly octagonal.
They mean it's shape at large. Not the detail of the model.
There is no such thing as a rectangle in nature. And the difference between the depicted rectangle without corners and one ideal rectangle is small.
“No true Scotsman” fallacy.
What about if it's rectangular with a detached lid?
Tupperware
bury me in Tupperware. Keep my remains fresh like a bog body
Yeah -- that made me laugh way too loud.
Ima be real, I laughed out loud when I thought of it
"It's not the cough that carries you off. It's the coffin they carry you off in." I've never really understood this, so I'll present it here without explanation.
Translation (from what I understand) would be: What actually kills you isn't the final part of your life. It's the memories and love of those that care for you.
I never thought of that, and it scans. Thanks.
In the sagacious words of Yogi Berra "It ain't over till it's over"
If you find it hard to remember, just think about funeral homes trying to rip people off and that "casket" is a term from those little jewelry boxes for rings and such, and those are hinged.
Funeral homes want more money = trying to associate your dead family with jewelry = "spend a little more for a nice casket, you don't want them to rot in some coffin do you?"
Of the hundreds I have I have yet to carry a coffin. But regularly carry caskets. Even green burials which take place in wicker and reed "boxes" .... They are made in flate panels and then strung together to form a large basket still refered to as a casket.
This is quite literally down my area of operation though... some mayoffer coffins but know it isn't a matter of just cost but sometimes offerings in the local area as well as regulations and customs ... though most of it is very similar there can be quite wildly different processes.
Yeah I think in addition to the jewelery association, "casket" has become the default term because "coffin" feels a little, idk, blasé? Something something euphemism treadmill
So, just the base level of a pyramid scheme.
No -- that would be if they tried to tempt you to be buried in a sarcophagus
TIL
K, then i want a "coffin with a hinged lid" and if you give me a casket you wont get paid.
Ah, you want a coffin-shaped casket
Bold of you to threaten nonpayment to people who spend all day making boxes for burying dead bodies.
I want a coffin where the lid hinges at the bottom not the side. Like slam that bad boy loud on me in case I’m just sleeping.
I'd want the casket hinged at the top, so I can do the vampire thing of raising up by my feet.
So since the last time I was here, this has pretty much been stuck in my head, so I thought I would share it with you. (Sorry)
Into the ground you have to go
The afterlife awaits you know
Into the fire you have to go
To end your earthly journey
If the box is shaped and
the lid comes off
then around a coffin
your relatives sough
But a rectangular box
with a long hinged lid -
Do you really have to ask it?
You are lying in a casket
Into the flames we have to go,
The afterlife is calling so,
Into the flames we have to go,
To send us on our journey
Into the ground we also go,
Six foot down, way down below,
Into the ground we have to go,
we are buried for our journey.
(I am aware I am going to hell)
I learned about this from "Scorpion". A man named Doctor Toby Curtis is trying to help his ex-wife get her stolen identity back, and through a series of unfortunate events she and Toby end up stuck in a casket by the man who stole her identity, then the follow conversation ensues :-
Toby : I just keep messing your life up
Amy : No, you were just trying to help. I'm the one who got you trapped in a coffin.
Toby : This is a casket. Coffins are tapered at the top and bottom.
Amy : Really? This is the last conversation you want to have? Correcting someone's word choice?
And since then I have ALWAYS remembered it. Because -- you know -- it's something that sticks with you.
(Did I mention I am a fun of dark humour?)
Apparently this is specific to the US.
The argument hinges on this one difference.
Is there a Ralphs around here?
What many people don't know is that they banned open coffin during Covid19.
Is that because many people don't live in the country where they did that?
No, they banned it for a different reason
They were scared Covid19 would mutate into a zombie virus and people would leap out of the caskets and start eating the mourners' brains?
They're horny, Barbara