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I like to shout Geronimo when I jump off cliffs

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Its my job  :)

Might I ask, are the caskets you use made more often from oak, pine or maple or is there some other wood which is more preferrred?

 

In my recent but limited experience, the caskets currently most popular are metal.

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It all depends on how much you want to pay (as with most things)

 

There are some metal ones but they are very expensive, the most popular is made from MDF or micro density fibre.

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It all depends on how much you want to pay (as with most things)

 

There are some metal ones but they are very expensive, the most popular is made from MDF or micro density fibre.

I took a Thanatology class Senior Year and one of the requirements was to go to a funeral home and, among other things, price out the cheapest, average and most expensive possible funeral that you could.

 

Don't remember the exact numbers, but I do remember the starting item for the most expensive was a solid gold casket - $34,000 U.S.

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... starting item for the most expensive was a solid gold casket - $34,000 U.S.

Hmm - solid gold you say. Gold costs about £9,000 per kilo, so your $34,000 casket could only have had 2 or 3 kilos of the stuff in it, if it was pure. Even at 9 carats, which is less gold, more gold-contaminated non-precious metal, it would only have weighed about 8 kilos. This would give around 730 cubic centimetres of the 9 carat stuff, which would have to be beaten pretty thin (about 0.2 mm thick) to form a coffin. Are you sure this was for people, not for their hamsters?

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In other words it's going to be like posh turkey foil, the equivalent of a large chocolate bar without its outside wrapper. I don't call that a box.

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like posh turkey foil

 

If you choose cremation, would that mean they'd have to take off the foil coffin for the last half-hour to allow browning?

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At least that way they could have seen Alistair Cooke

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Or, in the future, Stephen Fry, Gay Byrne and Leslie Ash

 

Not forgetting Quentin Crisp, or at a push, the golfer Tony Cracklin.

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Brilliant. :lol: That deserves a birthday wish even from someone as glum as me, many happy returns.

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... starting item for the most expensive was a solid gold casket - $34,000 U.S.

Hmm - solid gold you say. Gold costs about £9,000 per kilo, so your $34,000 casket could only have had 2 or 3 kilos of the stuff in it, if it was pure. Even at 9 carats, which is less gold, more gold-contaminated non-precious metal, it would only have weighed about 8 kilos. This would give around 730 cubic centimetres of the 9 carat stuff, which would have to be beaten pretty thin (about 0.2 mm thick) to form a coffin. Are you sure this was for people, not for their hamsters?

Agh damn, I didn't mean solid gold. I was rather sick last night and my mind wasn't working properly. I heard the phrase "solid gold" so often that I forget you can use it without the "solid part"

 

Anyhow, you are definetely right. Especially since solid gold would be a bit heavy I'd imagine. <_<

 

I think more likely just the outer layer was gold, but it was real and pure.

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Tempus Fugit is dead,

 

Maybe is here.

Ah... it all makes sense now... I was a bit confused for a while, but then it all became clear.

 

Another born-again DLer: how does it feel? Any identity crises?

 

:D TF :D

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My username comes down to the fact that I won over £300 in a work death pool with the death of Jack Lemon on 28/06/01.

 

I remember the date because I broke my leg playing 5 a sides the same day.

 

Still, the money came in handy :D

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My username comes down to the fact that I won over £300 in a work death pool with the death of Jack Lemon on 28/06/01.

 

I remember the date because I broke my leg playing 5 a sides the same day.

 

Still, the money came in handy :lol:

How interesting, It sounds almost like black magick..

 

You break the leg but win the prize. I suppose the DL didn't have Lemon

on the 2001 list. Good bet on your part.

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my names origin

Have you ever seen a squirrel masturbate? I have, hence the name.

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Have you ever seen a squirrel masturbate? I have, hence the name.

My god...and pray tell, where can one purchase these DVD's?

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Have you ever seen a squirrel masturbate? I have, hence the name.

My god...and pray tell, where can one purchase these DVD's?

Seems we've been here before...

 

http://www.deathlist.net/forums/index.php?...indpost&p=33029

*shrugs?* Meh! I'm blonde, & work graveyard shifts, I tend to be forgetful at times.

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Have you ever seen a squirrel masturbate? I have, hence the name.

My god...and pray tell, where can one purchase these DVD's?

Seems we've been here before...

 

http://www.deathlist.net/forums/index.php?...indpost&p=33029

Again, my god...

 

Tempus, I could have quite happily gone the rest of my lifetime without seeing that...

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Perhaps that link should be posted on MPFC new thread. :referee:

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My name is the same as my death league team, a play on Red Sox. (Boston baseball team)

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