Thank you for this great article! I have long advocated transparent coffins made most
likely of an acrylic polymer. I frankly do not like the idea of being 'six feet
under,' and I always felt that a transparent coffin with a vacuum pump system could
also serve as a super coffee table, the type like the momento styles you see now where
people display their favorite knick-knacks or fishing lures or whatever. What a great
ice-breaker when visitors come over! Preserve me with my favorite books, albums, complete
genealogical record (of course!), and so forth. I only ask that Mom--or whomever gets my
posthumous furniture--keeps the coffee rings from building up on the surface.
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Subject: [IN-CEM] Glass Coffins from 1888
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I just love it!
This article published in The Marietta Journal, Issue of Thursday
Morning, March 29, 1888, page 1:
GLASS BURIAL CASES
Henry H. Barry, of Philadelphia, has for many years interested
himself in transparent systems of burial. After conceiving the glass
casket, he kept it secret for a long while, until, on October 24th of
last year, it was patented.