On Wed, 19 Aug 2009 03:11:04 -0700 (PDT) Owain wrote :
Or you can get a cardboard coffin printed to your design on
a large format flatbed printer at creativecoffins.com

Back in the UK I went to an open day at Hanworth Crem. The guy
said that they really did not like cardboard coffins - the danger
is that as they are slid into the [already hot] cremator, they
catch light and the flames come back towards you at a rate of
knots. In the light of experience cardboard coffins are now
sprayed with water first.

Quite an interesting experience, and, no, they don't recycle the
coffins - would you want to be unscrewing the lid and manhandling
a 7-10 day old corpse for £50 or whatever the undertaker would
pay (less than the trade price and much much less than the
selling price).

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