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October 19, 2008 12:15 PM PDT

Put the fun in funeral

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

(Credit: MakeUseOf.com)

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.

Coffin with a sunflower design

You can choose to push up daisies, or sunflowers.

(Credit: Creative Coffins)

(Source: Digg via MakeUseOf.com)

Daren Darrow, a gadget and sci-fi geek, is a CNET copy editor by day and a crime-fighting superhero by night (at least in his dreams.) E-mail Daren.
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by mmntech October 19, 2008 1:00 PM PDT
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.
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by idontlikecrazedfanboys October 25, 2008 3:15 PM PDT
you know bill gates is responsible for more than just vista right. like say.... the pc as we know it?
by DEC_42 October 19, 2008 1:26 PM PDT
Kaz Hirai with Ridge Racer, then?
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by kswa1987 October 19, 2008 2:03 PM PDT
scary.

thats all i have to say
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by nahedh12 October 19, 2008 5:16 PM PDT
And in what way is that ironic? :P
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by jk3yboi October 19, 2008 7:01 PM PDT
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
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by Csisson October 20, 2008 5:24 PM PDT
Where's your sense of fun?
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by make_or_break October 21, 2008 7:15 AM PDT
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.
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by aosbeck October 21, 2008 1:11 PM PDT
I would have one of those street artists paint me coming out of the coffin...now that would be cool.
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by solitare_pax October 21, 2008 5:23 PM PDT
I suppose they could build it out of e-waste - and add to the marker "Gone on to an upgrade".
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by niko_osokin October 25, 2008 9:02 PM PDT
Skip the casket entirely and get cremated, THEN get buried in a 360. Grave should say, "Three Red Lighted. Sent back for repairs".
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by mochiman1 October 26, 2008 1:49 AM PDT
You misspelled respawning
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