Last gasp - Cigarette Coffin Design for lady who refuses to quit

6 years ago

At comparethecoffin.com we have had many unusual requests

We supply high-quality coffins, direct to the public at significantly better prices than funeral directors. We supply a complete range of different coffin types from Traditional, American Caskets, Eco coffins, and Cardboard.

We often get asked to design specific themed and one-off coffins’ to suit someone’s personality. Since we started years ago we have done some really interesting designs, Shark theme, Bakewell tart, and Wild Woodlands and many others

Recently, we were contacted by Sameera in Manchester who was looking for something for her mother, Hazel – who is still with us by the way.

Hazel smokes, in fact, smokes quite a lot. Her favourite brand comes in a gold packet.

Sameera designed the coffin and is being made by one of Comparethecoffin.com quality suppliers

When we help a family design a coffin with a particular theme that is linked to a commercial company we always ask permission to use their banding. This has usually been a formality, football teams, biscuit companies are usually quite happy to oblige and this makes a family happy at often what is a really unhappy time.

This time, however, the company involved was not happy to be associated with a funeral. We explained that we didn’t think there was such a thing as bad publicity, but they weren’t seeing it that way. Anyway we have not copied too closely the design and changed the branding a bit

The coffin will be made when it’s eventually needed and it will be cremated. We are also going to make a scatter tube to look like an individual cigarette so that ashes can be scattered at a location of the family’s choosing.

We are hoping this may help Hazel give up her hobby and she won’t need the coffin for quite a while.

Both Steven from Comparethecoffin.com, Sameera and Hazel are available for comment, and high-resolution images are available.

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Steven

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