Comments on: Devil in a Blue Vest

By: Rufus

Rufus — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 14:42:09 +0000

That is awesome! I love, love, love stories like that!!

By: Tracy, txmom2many

Tracy, txmom2many — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 14:22:01 +0000

Kenn, your avatar reminds me of a story we had running on the local news here. It would seem the wind turbines are killing birds. PETA was imploding. 1/2 of them want the turbines gone, the other 1/2 was shouting about wind power being an important part of the energy problem. Good times.

By: Rufus

Rufus — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 14:02:59 +0000

I dig the exploding wind turbine avatar, Kenn!

By: Mr. Sideous

Mr. Sideous — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 05:42:59 +0000

Depends on the function of the casket, Fozzy. If there are viewings and such, then a cheap tin stamped china made crapola with shredded newspaper stuffing will look bad. So, yes, quality is important. If they’re going directly into the ground, then by all means get a cardboard box.

By: Stacie.Make.Do.

Stacie.Make.Do. — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 04:47:30 +0000

“Our ancestors learned to bury those suckers deep and weight them down.”

…Or entombed above ground like in N.O. so they won’t float away as easily.
I’m all for the weighting them down part – my family’s in granite.

By: Rufus

Rufus — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 14:14:41 +0000

Oh, the life you lead, Lars!

By: Lars Walker

Lars Walker — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 14:05:07 +0000

I just read a book about death and burial (and, incidentally, vampires) and it seemed to me to make a pretty good argument that there are reasons for the embalming, casket and vault business. Dead bodies are remarkably mobile and vulnerable to weather events, getting dug up by animals, earth subsidence, etc. Not a nice final memory of Grandma. Our ancestors learned to bury those suckers deep and weight them down.

By: Matt Helm

Matt Helm — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 09:44:57 +0000

I used to be a marketing/membership manager there and can attest to their flammable properties.

By: JohnFN

JohnFN — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 04:39:16 +0000

I could definitely go out in a Wal-Mart casket. Best case scenario – bury me in the middle of Berkeley with a giant middlefinger for a tombstone.

By: Rufus

Rufus — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 03:48:08 +0000

It’s all about carbon, fozzy. A flimsy casket allows the worms and maggots to turn that decaying corpse into dangerous, greenhouse gases more quickly than a cadillac coffin. Inter your loved one in a Wal-Mart casket and a polar bear dies!