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  • October 2008

    • Thais Take Coffin Naps to Fix Karma

      Daily Telegraph (UK)  |  Oct 1, 08 7:44 PM CDT

      Thais Take Coffin Naps to Fix Karma

      (Newser) - As Thailand's economy slows and its government falters, growing numbers of deeply superstitious citizens are jostling into a pink coffin to "die," the Telegraph reports. At about $5 a head, monks in a monastery outside Bangkok officiate over the "dead bodies" in the coffins, before ushering in the next group of people hoping to rid themselves of bad karma. More »

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      economy  • Thailand  • Buddhist monks  • temple  • coffin  • luck

  • August 2008
  • April 2008

    • Greenies Can RIP With Eco-Friendly Funerals

      Associated Press  |  Apr 20, 08 5:35 PM CDT

      Greenies Can RIP With Eco-Friendly Funerals

      (Newser) - Greenies who bought organic in life can become more organic in death, the AP reports. Brits have enjoyed the eco-friendly funeral for years, but now cardboard coffins and natural fibers for corpses are catching on Stateside. "People are trying to think about what's the best way to live and with that, what's the best way to die," one funeral director said. More »

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      environmentalism  • death  • funeral  • green  • coffin

  • April 2007

    • Death Be Not Proud (At a Discount)

      San Francisco Chronicle  |  Apr 12, 07 4:47 PM CDT

      Death Be Not Proud (At a Discount)

      (Newser) - What does it say about us, Mark Morford asks, that wandering the aisles at Costco in Palm Desert, CA, we come upon not only drums of olive oil and eighty-packs of frozen cream puffs, but over there, right next to the tires and the lawn furniture and right behind the 10-foot plasma TV: discount caskets. More »

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      death  • consumer  • shopping  • Costco  • coffin  • casket

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