Would you spend $35,000 for a gold-plated coffin?

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You can't take it with you. Well, unless you buy a gold-plated coffin. SmartMoney looks at a pair of luxury coffin options for the person who wants to be first class, six feet under.

For $24,000 you can get Batesville Casket's Promethean bronze coffin with gold plating. That model reportedly has a little history, as it was the same model used in the funeral of singer Michael Jackson.

But if you want to outspend the King of Pop, you can opt for a $34,500 Golden Casket model that is "gilded with 24-karat gold" and required "hundreds of hours of handcraftsmanship" to produce.

"If it's something you're going to spend eternity in, it seems like you might want a real luxury option," says Edward Balfour, president of Golden Casket.

As SmartMoney notes, it's a big departure from the average coffin's relatively minor cost of $2,300.

So are there other options for the dramatically deceased? Of course there are. The band Kiss is still touring. But if the aging rockers outlive you, they have thoughtfully offered a Kiss Kasket $3,299. Although their band's merchandising website is quick to note that shipping costs will vary.

And the company Eternal Image even offers Star Trek-themed coffins (available in United Federation of Planets, Star Fleet Delta and even Klingon Empire).

There are also Major League Baseball-themed coffins for the diehard sports fan. This seems like a natural fit for fans of the Angels, no?

So while it may be impossible to count the myriad ways one can die, there's also an ever-increasing number of ways to choose your final resting place.

Would you spend $35,000 for a gold-plated coffin? | The Sideshow - Yahoo! News
 
After bury, someone will steal it. Unless, bury very deep and well security.
 
A pine coffin will be just fine for me. I'm donating all my organs to these who need it and my body to science anyway.
 
rockin'robin said:
You can't take it with you. Well, unless you buy a gold-plated coffin. SmartMoney looks at a pair of luxury coffin options for the person who wants to be first class, six feet under.

For $24,000 you can get Batesville Casket's Promethean bronze coffin with gold plating. That model reportedly has a little history, as it was the same model used in the funeral of singer Michael Jackson.

But if you want to outspend the King of Pop, you can opt for a $34,500 Golden Casket model that is "gilded with 24-karat gold" and required "hundreds of hours of handcraftsmanship" to produce.

"If it's something you're going to spend eternity in, it seems like you might want a real luxury option," says Edward Balfour, president of Golden Casket.

As SmartMoney notes, it's a big departure from the average coffin's relatively minor cost of $2,300.

So are there other options for the dramatically deceased? Of course there are. The band Kiss is still touring. But if the aging rockers outlive you, they have thoughtfully offered a Kiss Kasket $3,299. Although their band's merchandising website is quick to note that shipping costs will vary.

And the company Eternal Image even offers Star Trek-themed coffins (available in United Federation of Planets, Star Fleet Delta and even Klingon Empire).

There are also Major League Baseball-themed coffins for the diehard sports fan. This seems like a natural fit for fans of the Angels, no?

So while it may be impossible to count the myriad ways one can die, there's also an ever-increasing number of ways to choose your final resting place.

Would you spend $35,000 for a gold-plated coffin? | The Sideshow - Yahoo! News
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I am Jewish and we're buried in a plain wooden casket that has no metal on it. I am going to be cremated as I think it's a waste of good land to be buried. I would rather have the $35,000 to spend while I was alive!
 
it really goes to show the funerals are really for the living (whiile you are alive) , really weird thinking i'd must say. Just get cremated in the 'earth freindly way', or the old bon fire method, not at the undertakers...
 
Grummer said:
it really goes to show the funerals are really for the living (whiile you are alive) , really weird thinking i'd must say. Just get cremated in the 'earth freindly way', or the old bon fire method, not at the undertakers...
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I had a friend that dies of a brain tumor at the age of 40 yo. Her family treated her horrible and when I when to my friend funeral and saw the fancy coffin the father brought for his daughter it made me sick! The bastard treated his daughter like shit when she was alive and put on this damn show with flowers covering the coffin and renting out the whole funeral parlor . I guess the bastard felt guilty about the way he treated his daughter and was trying to made himself feel better because it sure as hell did nothing for my poor friend.
 
whatdidyousay! said:
I had a friend that dies of a brain tumor at the age of 40 yo. Her family treated her horrible and when I when to my friend funeral and saw the fancy coffin the father brought for his daughter it made me sick! The bastard treated his daughter like shit when she was alive and put on this damn show with flowers covering the coffin and renting out the whole funeral parlor . I guess the bastard felt guilty about the way he treated his daughter and was trying to made himself feel better because it sure as hell did nothing for my poor friend.
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thts' terrible, but truth is, more like 'aren't thats' the truth" we got to stop being naive, funerals is all about society, display of wealth and status. it's just a giant cop-out to subdue the fears of death amongst the living. It has been for centuries. But as centuries went by, the way funerals were regulated, carried out as a social ritual as changed of course, only thing hasnt changed was it's purpose in the core., a Core which is almost like denial of death, but also ironically, a denial of the life lived.
 
I wouldn't waste that much money on a coffin.
 
Might as well dig a hole in the ground and throw money into it. No difference.
 
Cremation is best choice for me because no room on land to bury. Waste of spaces. I rather put my ash where my favorite spots. Maybe 2 or 3 locations.
 
No cold and dark coffin for me....Cremation is the way to go and spread my ashes over the water at the Beach.
 
you can make your own coffin on the cheap, - while you are alive, and put it away...lots of people are doing that now.
 
I want to be buried the right way...rest peace in coffin... how jesus would want..who do you think you are? you aint special so why should you be cremated?...smh..frickin ppl.
 
just bury me without a coffin is better, wrap me in hemp paper , most environmentally freindly forget coffins..its a WASTE.......
 
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