Crazy coffins
Fancy being buried in a replica of your favourite car? “Not a problem”, says David Crampton, director of Vic Fearn Co. Ltd, a Nottinghamshire UK-based company which offers to help you make the ultimate statement at your own funeral. (Source.)
The company, which has been making traditional coffins for generations, has turned its hand to building custom coffins for anyone with £5,000 ($12,500 AUD) to spare. To date, the company has created wooden overcoats in the shape of ballet shoes, skateboards, electric guitars, narrowboats, cricket bags, a hot dog (complete with onions and mustard on top) and even a husky sled, ordered by an arctic explorer. People often keep the coffin in a prominent place in their house as both a work of art and a talking point about their final resting place.
It got me thinking how Christians could use this idea to preach a posthumous sermon to the crowd gathered at the funeral to suggest that this is not their final resting place. So here are a few ideas:
- A bed: I have fallen asleep in Christ but I will one day wake up at my master's call (1 Thess 4:13);
- A giant bee or wasp—with stinger removed!: (1 Cor 15:55). (This would be particularly suitable for a Christian entomologist);
- A model of Noah's ark: I will come safely through the judgement (1 Pet 3:20);
- A giant seed: I will be transformed into an imperishable body (1 Cor 15:42);
- (For the really daring:) a large sarcophagus with the outer covering looking like the Lord Jesus: I am a man in Christ—I have been buried with him, but will also rise with him (1 Cor 6:4).