Local carpenters can shape and paint your coffin to resemble absolutely anything – there’s even a camera coffin in the museum’s collection. A search online unearthed everything from Mercs (the favoured car in Africa) to fish to cellphones to aeroplanes to pineapples. One man’s love of smoking made him choose a cigarette coffin, a sort of fly in the face of adversity deathbed gesture. But my favourite has to be this one:
I’ve entertained the notion of foregoing a coffin and being cremated in my favourite quilt, but haven’t been able to get my head around wasting a good quilt like that. Perhaps I could get a friendly Ghanaian carpenter to carve me a wooden version instead…
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That is beautiful. I don't remember seeing those when I was at the museum. Though that was back in 1986, so they probably weren't there. Guess it is time for another visit...
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We've come across these in our Guinness Africa research. Crazy but oh so creative.
Hello. You are a no reply blogger so I am replying here..nice to meet you. I chose this post because I recently realised no one will want my stash when I go so i told my husband to put me on top of it and light a match!!
Oh! How funny ..the word for verification is 'embacarm' a brand of funeral director?
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