FATAL DISTRACTION - GOING IN STYLE
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Crazy caskets cheer up the grimmest of reapers. If you sell shoes for a living, you may as well step into the hereafter in a giant wingtip. At least that's the thinking in Ghana, where a coffin is the last word in style. Fifty years ago* a Ghanaian angler shipped off in a seven foot fish and started a trend; today there's an endless variety of silly, folk-arty things on the market. Cabdrivers are buried in wooden taxis, preachers in Bible-shaped boxes and suds lovers in beer bottles. Want your own? eShopAfrica.com will put a giant reminder of mortality in your living room for a mere $1000.
* According to the book Going into Darkness: Fantastic Coffins from Africa by Thierry Secretan the thematic coffin tradition started earlier than this
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