That casket is clearly octagonal.
They mean it’s shape at large. Not the detail of the model.
There is no such thing as a rectangle in nature. And the difference between the depicted rectangle without corners and one ideal rectangle is small.
What about if it’s rectangular with a detached lid?
Tupperware
Yeah – that made me laugh way too loud.
Ima be real, I laughed out loud when I thought of it
“It’s not the cough that carries you off. It’s the coffin they carry you off in.” I’ve never really understood this, so I’ll present it here without explanation.
Translation (from what I understand) would be: What actually kills you isn’t the final part of your life. It’s the memories and love of those that care for you.
I never thought of that, and it scans. Thanks.
In the sagacious words of Yogi Berra “It ain’t over till it’s over”
K, then i want a “coffin with a hinged lid” and if you give me a casket you wont get paid.
Ah, you want a coffin-shaped casket
Bold of you to threaten nonpayment to people who spend all day making boxes for burying dead bodies.
If you find it hard to remember, just think about funeral homes trying to rip people off and that “casket” is a term from those little jewelry boxes for rings and such, and those are hinged.
Funeral homes want more money = trying to associate your dead family with jewelry = “spend a little more for a nice casket, you don’t want them to rot in some coffin do you?”
I want a coffin where the lid hinges at the bottom not the side. Like slam that bad boy loud on me in case I’m just sleeping.
I’d want the casket hinged at the top, so I can do the vampire thing of raising up by my feet.
I want a sarcophagus.
TIL
I learned about this from “Scorpion”. A man named Doctor Toby Curtis is trying to help his ex-wife get her stolen identity back, and through a series of unfortunate events she and Toby end up stuck in a casket by the man who stole her identity, then the follow conversation ensues :-
Toby : I just keep messing your life up
Amy : No, you were just trying to help. I’m the one who got you trapped in a coffin.
Toby : This is a casket. Coffins are tapered at the top and bottom.
Amy : Really? This is the last conversation you want to have? Correcting someone’s word choice?
And since then I have ALWAYS remembered it. Because – you know – it’s something that sticks with you.
(Did I mention I am a fun of dark humour?)
So since the last time I was here, this has pretty much been stuck in my head, so I thought I would share it with you. (Sorry)
Into the ground you have to go The afterlife awaits you know Into the fire you have to go To end your earthly journey If the box is shaped and the lid comes off then around a coffin your relatives sough But a rectangular box with a long hinged lid - Do you really have to ask it? You are lying in a casket Into the flames we have to go, The afterlife is calling so, Into the flames we have to go, To send us on our journey Into the ground we also go, Six foot down, way down below, Into the ground we have to go, we are buried for our journey.(I am aware I am going to hell)
Is there a Ralphs around here?
Apparently this is specific to the US.
The argument hinges on this one difference.
What many people don’t know is that they banned open coffin during Covid19.
