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I heard somewhere if you were going to be cremated you could `hire` a wooden coffin with a cardboard insert and the insert with the person inside would be cremated but the outer coffin could then be reused. Anyone else heard of this?
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Some of my relatives work in the family owned funeral business, so I have some knowledge of this subject.
It galls me when people spend a small fortune on coffins that are going to be burnt. I actually talked one old dear out of spending over £2k on a solid oak coffin that was destined for cremation. I think it's a generation thing - the oldies want to be seen to doing their best for their departed loved ones.
A basic coffin costs around £30 but a funeral director will retail it at several hundred pounds - the mark up is astronomical.
I'd suggest everyone should have their own made by a local joiner or use a cardboard one. Coffins are NEVER reused.
Don't even get me started on the money wasted on floral tributes.....after the cremation, these are always thrown in a skip around the back.
It galls me when people spend a small fortune on coffins that are going to be burnt. I actually talked one old dear out of spending over £2k on a solid oak coffin that was destined for cremation. I think it's a generation thing - the oldies want to be seen to doing their best for their departed loved ones.
A basic coffin costs around £30 but a funeral director will retail it at several hundred pounds - the mark up is astronomical.
I'd suggest everyone should have their own made by a local joiner or use a cardboard one. Coffins are NEVER reused.
Don't even get me started on the money wasted on floral tributes.....after the cremation, these are always thrown in a skip around the back.
So what about the coffin in the link I provided, Mrs. O? The company says:
//The outer wooden coffin contains an inner cardboard coffin. Only the cardboard coffin is cremated. The wooden coffin is reused. This system is less wasteful, reduces pollution and is less expensive than cremating or burying a traditional coffin. //
Seems it's a new innovation. I'd never heard of it before.
//The outer wooden coffin contains an inner cardboard coffin. Only the cardboard coffin is cremated. The wooden coffin is reused. This system is less wasteful, reduces pollution and is less expensive than cremating or burying a traditional coffin. //
Seems it's a new innovation. I'd never heard of it before.
When I worked in the hospice, the local undertakers would always ask family permission for the floral tributes to be brought round to us, then the housekeeping staff would unpick them so they looked less funereal. The hospice day rooms always had lovely flowers, which helped raise everyone's spirits. I wish other funeral directors did the same!
