My Funky Funeral

Just when we thought it couldn’t get any stranger, we at My Funky Funeral came across a website offering 4 new and exciting things to do with your ashes when you bite the dust. We were quite excited, and yes, maybe even a bit dumbfounded by some of these options, however, after carefully scrutinizing the site we realized that it was a hoax (see the disclaimer at the bottom of the page). The ideas were so interesting though, that we decided to post them on our blog anyway:

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Product designer Nadine Jarvis has recently come up with a fascinating idea.

In her piece Carbon Copies she explores using the deseased ashes to make pencils, “pencils made from the carbon of human remains. 240 pencils can be made from an average body of ash – a lifetime supply of pencils for those left behind.”

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So it appears that we may need to add an option to our funeral planning questionnaire. For those of you who feel that a traditional burial or cremation is simply not enough, Summum will mummify your remains for the bargain price of $67,000! According to this site “The finest must be permanent, enduring, and timeless“. So what better way to prove that you are the finest (perhaps right on par with a pharaoh?) than to be mummified and buried in a Mummiform cast inlaid with gold and jewels?

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From vibrating urns to lost ashes, from strippers at funerals to rock stars snorting their father’s remains up their nose, we at MFF thought we’d seen it all.

But au contraire my friends. Nothing has stopped us in our tracks more than the website we unearthed this week…

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