QR Code Headstones in Japan

Via JapanTrends.

In the future this is the sort of thing that will make archaeologists go "WTF?"

My Third Cousin's Parents

This is a little late, but after I was showing Stuff Dead People Like to my aunt and my third cousin, the latter pulled up a picture and said "meet my parents!"  I asked for permission to post it here, so here we go:

These are the cremains of his parents who apparently were dressed up for a costume party.

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.

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]

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.

But do they make it in argyle?

I know, I know, this is old.  But it's new to me!  And I so very rarely get to talk about caskets.

This is a coffin. A wool coffin.  This is one of many ways people are making burial of the dead a little more eco-friendly, and I have to admit, if you were to simply tell me that one could make coffins out of wool, I'd have expected something that looked like one of my great aunt's knitted scarves and not this elegant white casket.

Warming Up the Cold Touch of Death