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The PETA Coffin

Posted by samzenpus on from the take-your-cause-to-the-grave dept.

You can help your furry friends from beyond the grave thanks to a New Mexico company that is building coffins in a partnership with People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. The coffins range from $620-$670, which includes a $75 PETA contribution. They are earth-friendly, being made of wood with no screws, nails, hinges or animal-based glues. Michael McGraw, a PETA spokesman in New York, said, "We expect a healthy interest. It's the best way for people to continue to use their voice for animals in death." I would think that being fed to animals upon your death would be the most environmentally friendly thing to do, but what do I know?

13 comments

  1. FTFA by Landshark17 · · Score: 1

    They bear painted slogans, such as "Lifetime PETA Member"

    I can't help but think that phrase is a little bit inaccurate when posted on a coffin.

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  2. PETP by moose_hp · · Score: 1

    Someone should start the PETP (People for the Ethical Treatment of Plants), those guys at PETA think that animals are superior beings than plants (and for that matter to humans as well) and they are freaking wrong, murdering innocent trees so they could bury their dead bodies is just plain stupid.

    * No wood for coffins! cremate your body after you no longer need it (remember to do this in a facility where you can store the energy, a AA battery is more useful than a dead tree and a dead human decomposing in a soil that will never been planted with other than decorative grass)
    * No dead trees for storing knowledge! eInk devices and public keys for all.
    * Ban christmas trees!
    * Ban vegetarianism! Plants are higher beeings and should not be consumend, they been in the earth for more time than vertebrate animals and they deserve to live fully.

    </sarcasm>

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  3. what? by xZgf6xHx2uhoAj9D · · Score: 1

    Okay animal-based glues I could understand, but screws, nails and hinges? What's wrong with metal?

    1. Re:what? by moose_hp · · Score: 1

      I was going to coment that as well (and with pretty much the same wording), but after rereading TFA, I noticed that the coffins are more like "Green coffins WITH Peta messages and donation included" rather than just "PETA coffins"

      Still, it makes no sence since metal is recyclable. Yet it's not very fast at biodegradation (sp?).

      Well... mines do kill millions of canaries [citation needed] every year for just the trivial problem of just giving miners a better chance to survive. =P

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    2. Re:what? by will_die · · Score: 1

      If you go to work in a mine that still uses canaries run for your life. Electronic sensors do a lot better and sooner, job of detecting the dangerous gases.

    3. Re:what? by nerdboy7186 · · Score: 1

      Well what if the local werewolf dug up the grave and choked on a screw and we wouldn't want zombies poke their one good eye on a nail

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    4. Re:what? by moose_hp · · Score: 1

      Well, the canary comment was tongle in cheek.

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    5. Re:what? by SeNtM · · Score: 0

      I just filed for a patent this afternoon to create a harmful-gas electronic-sensor that is created by compressing 2500 live Canaries into a small portable unit. The resulting unit can optionally be placed in the PETA coffin.

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  4. No screws & hinges for a reason by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    They dont use metal because metal doesnt biodegrade..

    some glues, and of course, wood. over a period of time degrade.. takes many years but they do degrade.

    Metal on the other hand does not.. its all about making sure if you bury someone in a hundred years time there is nothing left, the bugs have eaten everything. ... not a pile of screws and hinges left!

    1. Re:No screws & hinges for a reason by giantweevil · · Score: 1

      Metal is recyclable, though.

      It can be re-used, it doesn't have to biodegrade.

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    2. Re:No screws & hinges for a reason by UncleWilly · · Score: 1

      huh? what do you think rust is?

  5. PETA -- by fish_in_the_c · · Score: 1

    I can't believe it's not here already. But I always preferred the orginization.
    People for the eating of tasty animals.

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  6. I'd buy ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I'd buy a metric f@ck ton of these if I could guarantee that they'd be filled with PETA members. What a bunch of retarded zealots. Lets worry about the f@cking animals once we've solved the whole ethical treatment of people issue. Maybe if we can all get them to read articles like this one and this one, we can convince them not to eat vegetables either and starve to death.