"Holly, in France" wrote
| You don't think they *burn* those expensive coffins
| do you? They're crematorium assistants' perks are
| expensive coffins.
| I have heard people say, really believing it, that this
| is true, that the coffins are 'recycled' so to speak.
| Good idea if they were IMO, as long as the crematoriums/
| funeral directors are open about it. But does it
| really happen?

I would be surprised if it hasn't, somewhere. When one thinks of what goes
on in the restaurant trade re-using the plate scrapings ...

Owain