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Man Patents Self-Burying Coffin

Posted by samzenpus on from the ashes-to-ashes-righty-tighty dept.

disco_tracy writes "A California inventor has filed a patent for a coffin that screws into the ground vertically. The reason? It greatly reduces excavation labor and burial costs, decreases land use, and opens up more space for burials in unused areas of a cemetery. Writer Clark Boyd also lists 5 other unconventional burial options, including lye, ecopods, GPS devices that track bodies buried without headstones, cryogenics and — my favorite — getting buried in the sky."

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  1. Re:Great... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    "equal to telling them their culture is wrong."

    *throws a grenade into the room*
    DM: Everyone that makes their spot check is able to read the following on the grenade: Communist Muslim.
    *ducks and runs*