Put the fun in funeral

By customizing your coffin, you too can go out in style.

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Who says you can't take your toys with you? With Creative Coffins, you can choose to be buried in a coffin using a stock design--including flags, nature scenes, and sports--or you can customize one to fit your personality.

According to Creative Coffins' Web site, you can use any design you like, but some company names and logos are subject to copyright and can be used only with permission (I guess you can't escape copyright issues even in death).

According to the U.K. company, each cartonboard coffin weighs less than 22 pounds and is made from at least 60 percent recycled materials. The box is assembled using natural starch glue instead of synthetic resins, nuts and bolts, tape, and so on. The design is intended to lessen your environmental impact even when you're pushing up daisies.

Remember, if you choose to use your favorite video game, respawning is not guaranteed.

You can choose to push up daisies, or sunflowers.

(Credit: Creative Coffins)

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[mmntech]

The Vista coffin is a little ironic. Bill Gates should be buried in that one along with the unsold box copies of the much chagrined OS.

[idontlikecrazedfanboys]

you know bill gates is responsible for more than just vista right. like say.... the pc as we know it?

[DEC_42]

Kaz Hirai with Ridge Racer, then?

[kswa1987]

scary.

thats all i have to say

[nahedh12]

And in what way is that ironic? :P

[jk3yboi]

I sincerely hope that no one uses these at any funerals I attend... How embarrassing it would be to burst into laughter upon the site of the SNES controller :P

[Csisson]

Where's your sense of fun?

[make_or_break]

The inevitability of going from life to fertilizer; at least there's a modicum of whimsy to all of this even if in the afterlife you'd probably never 'live' down the geekiness of it all, so to speak.

Yeah...to live and die a fanboy...absolutely creepy, even if the pallbearers can't keep a straight face.

[aosbeck]

I would have one of those street artists paint me coming out of the coffin...now that would be cool.

[solitare_pax]

I suppose they could build it out of e-waste - and add to the marker "Gone on to an upgrade".

[niko_osokin]

Skip the casket entirely and get cremated, THEN get buried in a 360. Grave should say, "Three Red Lighted. Sent back for repairs".

[mochiman1]

You misspelled respawning