Introducing the Last Lullaby coffin
We get a steady trickle of phone calls here at the GFG from people who think they’ve got a brilliant product or service to offer the bereaved. Some have, some haven’t. All have already approached funeral directors in the expectation of whoops, backslapping and high fives. All, even the truly brilliant, have been received by […]
ASA adjudication on Greenfield Creations
Advertising Standards Authority Adjudication on Greenfield Creations Ltd Greenfield Creations Ltd Chapel Road Ridgewell Essex CO9 4RU Date: 13 June 2012 Media: Internet (on own site) Sector: Business Number of complaints: 1 Complaint Ref: A12-191396 Background Summary of Council decision: Two issues were investigated of which both were Upheld. Ad Claims on www.GreenfieldCreationsCoffins.co.uk, stated “The […]
Another bookcase coffin
From an article in last Sunday’s Telegraph: Kenneth Grange, 82, has designed some of the most familiar products and appliances used in our daily lives, from Kodak cameras to Kenwood food mixers, parking meters and bus shelters to London taxis. He began his career working as an architectural assistant at Arcon Architects before becoming a […]
New coffin 2 — the Burial Cloud
From the press release: Linda Robinson is a professional end-of-life carer and her clients, tucked up in warm, cozy beds, often confided to a dread of being carried out in a wooden box. When her children were young, the family wrapped dead pets in soft woollen jumpers for burial, and inspired by this, Linda decided […]
New coffin 1 — the Curve
Behold the Curve coffin developed in Tenterden, Kent, by Andy Clarke. Andy says, “I always knew that there was room for a different type of coffin. I couldn’t understand why there was so little choice for what is, at the end of the day, an essential item in all of our lives. “My desire was […]
Tasty
From the web page of J & D’s Foods: Is there a better way to show your love of bacon forever than to be buried wrapped in it? We don’t think so. This genuine bacon casket is made of 18 Gauge Gasketed Steel with Premium Bacon Exterior/Interior, and includes a Memorial and Record Tube, […]
Advertising Standards Authority passes judgement on Colourful Coffins
Copied and pasted directly from the ASA website here: Advertising Standards Authority Adjudication on Colourful Coffins Ltd Colourful Coffins Ltd Printworks Crescent Road Cowley Oxford OX4 2PB Date: 14 March 2012 Media: Internet (on own site), Brochure, Magazine Sector: Business Number of complaints: 1 Complaint Ref: A11-176349 Ad A claim on the […]
Top tips for funeral shoppers
Josh Slocum, Executive Director of the Funeral Consumers Alliance in the USA, is a major hero to all who toil at the GFG-Batesville Tower. Here he is talking on the telly about funeral pricing and home funerals. It’s interesting to note the similarities with the British funeral industry, in particular consumers’ disapproval of the marking […]
Wrong coffin with a twist
Here’s an extraordinary thing. A funeral director brings the wrong coffin to the crematorium. The crematorium staff spot that it’s the wrong coffin on arrival, and inform the funeral director. So far, so banal. What happens next? The service goes ahead with the wrong coffin. At the conclusion thereof the coffin is not burnt but, […]
Go like a Pharaoh
Fred Guentert, 89, of Orlando, Florida, has spent years getting ready to go. In his workshop he has been building his coffin — and not just any old coffin, either. Fred’s is an Egyptian, Pharoah-style coffin, and he’s been crafting it since the 80s. He’s an Egypt nut, you see. Hand-painted red, black, gold and […]
