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You can't take it with you. Well, unless you buy a gold-plated coffin. SmartMoney looks at a pair of luxury coffin options for the person who wants to be first class, six feet under.

For $24,000 you can get Batesville Casket's Promethean bronze coffin with gold plating. That model reportedly has a little history, as it was the same model used in the funeral of singer Michael Jackson.

But if you want to outspend the King of Pop, you can opt for a $34,500 Golden Casket model that is "gilded with 24-karat gold" and required "hundreds of hours of handcraftsmanship" to produce.

"If it's something you're going to spend eternity in, it seems like you might want a real luxury option," says Edward Balfour, president of Golden Casket.

As SmartMoney notes, it's a big departure from the average coffin's relatively minor cost of $2,300.

So are there other options for the dramatically deceased? Of course there are. The band Kiss is still touring. But if the aging rockers outlive you, they have thoughtfully offered a Kiss Kasket $3,299. Although their band's merchandising website is quick to note that shipping costs will vary.

And the company Eternal Image even offers Star Trek-themed coffins (available in United Federation of Planets, Star Fleet Delta and even Klingon Empire).

There are also Major League Baseball-themed coffins for the diehard sports fan. This seems like a natural fit for fans of the Angels, no?

So while it may be impossible to count the myriad ways one can die, there's also an ever-increasing number of ways to choose your final resting place.

Would you spend $35,000 for a gold-plated coffin? | The Sideshow - Yahoo! News

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If you can't afford Gold- plated coffins, build one of your own coffin.

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Yeah, I was thinking the same thing.

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A pine coffin will be just fine for me. I'm donating all my organs to these who need it and my body to science anyway.

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whatdidyousay!

I am Jewish and we're buried in a plain wooden casket that has no metal on it. I am going to be cremated as I think it's a waste of good land to be buried. I would rather have the $35,000 to spend while I was alive!

caz12

only if i wanted to 'p' sponging family

Grummer

it really goes to show the funerals are really for the living (whiile you are alive) , really weird thinking i'd must say. Just get cremated in the 'earth freindly way', or the old bon fire method, not at the undertakers...

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I had a friend that dies of a brain tumor at the age of 40 yo. Her family treated her horrible and when I when to my friend funeral and saw the fancy coffin the father brought for his daughter it made me sick! The bastard treated his daughter like shit when she was alive and put on this damn show with flowers covering the coffin and renting out the whole funeral parlor . I guess the bastard felt guilty about the way he treated his daughter and was trying to made himself feel better because it sure as hell did nothing for my poor friend.

Grummer

thts' terrible, but truth is, more like 'aren't thats' the truth" we got to stop being naive, funerals is all about society, display of wealth and status. it's just a giant cop-out to subdue the fears of death amongst the living. It has been for centuries. But as centuries went by, the way funerals were regulated, carried out as a social ritual as changed of course, only thing hasnt changed was it's purpose in the core., a Core which is almost like denial of death, but also ironically, a denial of the life lived.

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I wouldn't waste that much money on a coffin.

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Might as well dig a hole in the ground and throw money into it. No difference.

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Cremation. Enough said.

LakeTahoe

Cremation is best choice for me because no room on land to bury. Waste of spaces. I rather put my ash where my favorite spots. Maybe 2 or 3 locations.

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No cold and dark coffin for me....Cremation is the way to go and spread my ashes over the water at the Beach.

whatdidyousay!

I am going to be cremated too, I better be or I will come back and haunt my family! But you still have to buy a coffin, damn it!

Grummer

you can make your own coffin on the cheap, - while you are alive, and put it away...lots of people are doing that now.

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I want to be buried the right way...rest peace in coffin... how jesus would want..who do you think you are? you aint special so why should you be cremated?...smh..frickin ppl.

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just bury me without a coffin is better, wrap me in hemp paper , most environmentally freindly forget coffins..its a WASTE.......

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Mimsy

Make your own coffin? That's creepy.

Mimsy

Then we can burn you and we'll all get high from your hemp fumes!

Grummer

hemp got not THC, its just rope and paper material but of the finest quality in the world...

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Grummer

yup there's a such thing called Coffin club, quite fascinating, they often run it in old people's home...imagine them preparing for 'home'...

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Oh well, there goes that idea right down the drain. No party for us.

Grummer

there is it...oh btw i did a Post grad paper on Death and Dying last year...it was fascinating, wrote an essay on film, Flatliners and its associations with NDEs (Near Death experiences).

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Grummer

but that bunch of flowers on top...never know...it might be a hairy purple flower (my favourite type, it grew on the mountain, modified and grafted and 5th generation)

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dereksbicycles

I've many years left to live. I would rather spend money or give it to family members, or donate it to a good cause rather than $35K on cemetry!!