RSSWeave your own willow casket!
Remember those jokes about taking a basket weaving course in college? (Or was that just my college?) Just because you finally graduated/dropped out doesn’t mean that you still can’t learn to weave. And just because you’re learning to weave doesn’t mean it has to be something wussy like a chair or swinging sex sling. Musgrove Willows in the UK is teaching the morbidly crafty how to weave their own willow coffins.
From GroovyGreen.com:
Last weekend’s “Weave Your Own Coffin” course ($500) was booked solid. The idea is that you use the final product in the meantime as a blanket box. If anything, it would definitely be a macabre conversation piece.For those that are interested, Musgrove Willows will be offering the course once again in the spring. Now you know what to get that loved one for Christmas…
It’s true, a handmade personal gift is usually considered the nicest kind of gift–but it will be hard to get it wrapped and under the tree, I bet.
It looks like Muskrat Willows isn’t the only wicker casket game in the UK, either. While searching for a willow coffin image to accompany this post, I came across several other companies that will let you return to nature in a more, uh, natural container. Natural Endings is a “green funerals” specialty company, while Somerset Willow Company will sell you fancy body boxes like the one shown above.
Personally I can’t think of a body inside of something like this without also imagining it set on fire, but of course you can go the more traditional route and drop the damned thing into a hole in the ground. Well, you can’t, because you’ll be in it. It’s your coffin, after all, once your bereaved survivors pull all the blankets out of it.
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