Found a good website for very modest coffins.
http://www.trappistcaskets.com/products.asp
I think it would mean more, if the family made the casket. It shows all the
love you have for the departed. What a personal touch. I remember on
the Waltons T.V. show, an episode called "The Shay". An old relative came
for a visit and didn't tell anyone, that she was dying.
She asked one of the boys to make her a shay, and when he was done, she
applied an ornate paint job. She suddenly passed away and they took her to a
clearing, in the shay, she loved so much and buried her. Give me the simple
life. Bob
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Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2007 12:05 PM
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Subject: Re: [INPCRP] INPCRP Digest, Vol 2, Issue 63
If you are interested in wooden coffins, but don't really want to build
your
own, your local friendly undertaker can supply one from the Monks in
southern Indiana for something like $800 or so (you have to ask - they
likely won't
show you one unless you do). We have used 2 of these, and they are
available
anywhere via overnight delivery.
A friend of ours went through a school up in Iowa and learned the skill,
and
makes coffins in rural Defiance, Ohio.
One of my friend's clients was a family of 6 siblings that wanted to work
together on the project, and made their parent's caskets themselves as a
togetherness project... A really neat idea, I thought...
Vince