LONDON - British pensioner Malcolm Brocklehurst loves Blackpool Football Club and his former profession of aircraft engineer, and he has no plans to abandon them in death.
So his final home will be a coffin shaped like a plane, painted bright orange and emblazoned with the Blackpool logo.
"I want a fun funeral. I don't want people crying and that," the 77-year-old told AFP as he leaned happily on his casket, on show at London's Royal Festival Hall as part of an event titled "Death: A Festival for the Living".
The wings of his plywood coffin are removable, Brocklehurst points out, for easier access to his local crematorium, where he has asked that he be sent to the incinerator with the World War II cry: "Chocks away!"
It is the work of Crazy Coffins - an offshoot of a Nottingham-based traditional coffin and urn maker which took on a new identity in the 1990s when people began asking to customise their final resting places.
A commission for a pearlescent coffin for the late British TV presenter Paula Yates, who died in 2000, helped make the firm famous, as did several appearances in the press.
"I don't think there is anything we can't make," said David Crampton, the firm's managing director.
"The customers are the designers: we just make what they ask. We say to people, 'There's a choice in that final decision'." |
發表於 2012-2-1 07:21 AM
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