President Fords Casket....

[rsmith6621]

The folks on MSNBC said it weighed 800 pounds before the body was placed in it....what the hell is it made of....concrete

this one is wood and weighs only 240pd



http://www.costco.com/Browse/Product.aspx?Prodid=11066226&whse=BC&Ne=4000000&N=4008004&Mo=7&pos=0&No=2&Nr=P_CatalogName:BC&cat=23078&Ns=P_Price|1||P_SignDesc1&Sp=C&ec=&topnav=

I dont understand are there security devices built in or what...

[babylonsister]

1. Ford's was probably lined with steel. nt

[HCE SuiGeneris]

2. lmfao -- Costco coffins...

Give me a gross of 'em!

[BeachBuckeye]

3. I would bet they are absolutely wrong

The ease with which the honor guard carried the casket belies the 800 lb. report. When I was in college I worked at a funeral home and there were no caskets even approaching 800lbs. Even the Bronze ones didn't come close to that.

[Future Principal]

4. it's full of notes to ford telling him he shouldn't have pardoned nixon.

200,000,000 of those weight alot.

[HCE SuiGeneris]

5. Welcome to DU !

From a (currently) fellow Arizonan. :hi: :dem:

[calimary]

14. Welcome to DU!

No kidding. I would have put one in, too.

[newyawker99]

21. Hi Future Principal!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[bigwillq]

24. Hi!

Welcome to DU! :hi:

[SoCalDem]

6. Nougat? Who knew Ford was nougat.. he always seemed like a "creamy center" kinda guy.. n/t

[lies and propaganda]

7. Im cracking up at your link!

buy a casket for everyone in your family!

[Warpy]

8. Lead lined, undoubtedly

in a vain attempt to stop the natural process of decay.

[flordehinojos]

9. i want to be cremated. i want my ashes spread along some coastline.

preferible along the bay in santiago de cuba




... but since that will not be possible, any coastline will be good enough for me.



that is good enough for me.

[Buzz Clik]

10. I was a pallbearer for a young man...

There were six of us, and our assignment was to move the casket about ten feet. All of us were larger than average and in good shape. That thing was so incredibly heavy I thought my arm was going to come out of its socket. We were barely able to get it into the hearse, and all us were marveling at the immense weight. Part of it was the surprise, but the entire weight was many hundreds of pounds.

[in_cog_ni_to]

11. James Brown's casket was 14k Gold and weighed 500 lbs before his body was in it.

650 lbs with him in it. Fords weighed 800 lbs? Sheesh...it must have been concrete! Those soldiers carried it like it weighed almost nothing! I'm impressed! They made it seem effortless.

[SoCalDem]

13. Oh geez.. Whaddayahwannabet James won't be buried long?

Who on earth would tell the press that detail. Is there a rack of shovels by the grave?

[in_cog_ni_to]

15. LOL! I know! It was his manager who spoke at the funeral. He told the entire story

about the guy who organized the funeral, how he said "nothing but a 14K Gold casket would be good enough for James Brown." He found a company who made them, but the casket was too heavy for a regular passenger jet so he chartered a Delta Plane, but got to the airport too late and he ended up driving the casket to Georgia himself. I cringed as a listened to the story for the same reason you mention.:)

[China_cat]

12. It was probably the postage that made it weigh that much

From http://www.funeraldepot.com/returntosender.htm

[Ezlivin]

16. It was Made in China to be extra safe

Ford is accident-prone even in the afterlife.

[Hubert Flottz]

17. Cash...

He took his with him.

[B Calm]

18. Did they really take the Ford funeral on world tour?

[onethatcares]

19. screw the casket and all that, I want

a Viking Funeral. I just wonder if all the red tape can be bypassed and some friends just send me on to nivrana(sp?) without any further hassle.

[Canuckistanian]

20. Valhalla, you mean

And remember, you get to take all your maidservants and horses with you, too!

[leftofthedial]

22. they must have stashed Cheney's corpse

in the false bottom

[trogdor]

23. It was probably built better than your last new car.

And costs at least as much.