“On any given day then, some twenty-seven hundred licensed embalmers like Tom Fielding will wheel a newly deceased family member into their prep rooms and there ply their trade… Twice nearly every minute on average, one of these preservative-filled bodies will then be sealed inside a casket that’s sealed inside a vault and topped with a ton of dirt that’s all but prevented from ever reaching them. Although I have not yet gotten my coffin table, it hasn’t stopped me from trying to plan a burial that will respect the natural order of things and not cause harm to the earth. I see my coffin table as a way to be a good steward of God’s gifts and resources. What else do you want?”įor a few years now, I have asked my family to give me a custom-made “coffin table,” a coffee table with a hinged lid that can store all the games and kids’ stuff that clutter our living room and double as a coffin when my husband or I die. “Mom, what do you want for Mother’s Day?”
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