FHM Magazine Jun 04

COFFINS - GETAWAY CASKETS
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All the fun of a funeral in Ghana without ever having to live there. No-one knows where we go when we die. If it's LA though, you're going to need a set of wheels. Thanks to coffin-makers in Ghana, the dead can now take to the afterlife in a hand-carved Ferrari, Subaru or whatever they fancy. "Ghana's Ga people bury their dead in coffins that represent the life of the deceased," says Cordelia Salter-Nour of eShopAfrica.com, the business that's bringing Ghana's best to the West. The designs come in full, half and table top models. "Half size is a children's coffin," Salter-Nour says. But do Westerners want to spend eternity in a giant phone? "Sure they do," Salter-Nour insists. &One customer wants to be buried in a peacock. But she ordered a half size, so she'll have to squash unless she's small."

See picture of the Ferrari coffin and the peacock in the Coffin Gallery