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You're going to think that I'm becoming a little obsessed with death. In my last post, I wrote about using an "online locker" to preserve your digital heritage after you've shuffled off this mortal coil. Now, I've run across the idea for a coffin that can be screwed, yes screwed, into the ground. See, that's you up there (well, your empty shell of a body) being put into the screw-like coffin. The idea is that coffin would then be torqued into the ground, either by machine or even by hand. California inventor Donald Scruggs came up with the idea, and now has a patent for it. From the patent application: "[the] burial containers...provide low cost internment methods with hermetic sealing, security locking, plaque and memorial markers and built in flower and flag receptacles." Nice.
But you're screaming, "why?" Good question. Again, from the patent application: "[the coffins] greatly reduce excavation labor and burial costs...they also decrease the land space required for each burial and provide for burials in normally unused areas within the cemetery."
The patent application didn't mention that the screw-in would also provide a number of great jokes at the deceased's expense, but it's one of the reasons I'm giving this a thumbs up. You can read more about it, courtesy of Treehugger.
The screw-in coffin also got me wondering about other interesting ways one might go about disposing of oneself. Here are five for your consideration, in order of my own personal preference....
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