Friday, January 14, 2011

Hot Rod Caskets!

Didn't I just say like four posts ago I never get to talk about caskets?  And here, second post in one day having to do with caskets.

Not the first car related casket I've shown here, but it is pretty sweet:
Apparently if you want to buy it long before you actually have to use it, it can be converted into an ice chest by adding a different liner.  Gives a new meaning to the expression "iced."

Via Neatorama.

Lee Harvey Oswald's Casket Sold

For $87,469.  Apparently he was buried in this, and then when his body was exhumed his family had his casket swapped out for a different one, and so the funeral home sold it.  Check it out:
Lee Harvey Oswald's Casket
Via Art Daily.

Thursday, January 6, 2011

Computer Geek Gravestone

This is the head stone of Hu Chuang, who died at 26 and whose headstone is a badass piece of computer geekery:
[Via: Neatorama]

Tuesday, January 4, 2011

The Soapman!

[Im Cr: David Hunt/Smithsonian]
I know it's old news, but I've never actually seen the picture before... this is the Soap Man, whose body was found after being entirely saponified, or literally turned into soap.