It seems that two European Coffin(casket) makers are are squaring off using caskets to sell their Calenders. The calender on the left is from an Italian Casket Maker. The calender on the right is from the Polish Casket maker.
An Italian and Polish coffin maker are having a sexy coffin calender war.
This one is the one technique that Batesville Casket Company has not used to try to sell their Caskets.
Now The Italian Casket Coffin Maker seems to offer high price handcrafted jobs and the Polish casket makers price seems to be a little less.
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Casket Sales are down 5 million units in 2009. The Funeral Industry has been experiencing a decline in traditional funeral. This is directly due to a rise in cremation.
Casket Sales were significantly down in 2009
“As their sales slow, some casket makers worry their business is hitting a dead end.
Sales of caskets have been declining for years as more people choose cremation. But the economic slump is compounding the industry’s woes as those who do pick caskets buy cheaper, more spartan accommodations for the hereafter.
In response, casket makers are diversifying, building less expensive models and expanding cremation offerings. The country’s biggest casket maker, Hillenbrand Inc., parent of Batesville Casket, is going outside the funeral business altogether. Earlier this year it said it would spend $435 million to buy K-Tron International Inc., which makes factory equipment.
“We are a very significant player in an industry that isn’t growing,” explains Hillenbrand Chief Executive Ken Camp.”via online.wsj.com
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For some facebook is a continual Open Casket, a way to communicate with the dead long after they are gone. This has special appeal for the generation that grew up on My Space and continues their life on Facebook.
A Facebook Profile can be a perpetual memorial.
...a search ofFacebook groups titled In Memory of
turned up more than 55,000 results, and a search for
Rest in Peace turned up more than 14,000.
Facebook is a great place for online memorials
For the generation that spent high school on MySpace andcollege on Facebook, its only natural to seek out the Web in times of need.
When Northwestern freshman Trevor Boehm died in November 2008, friends and family members flocked to a common gathering spot to mourn together and share their disbelief: Facebook. It was all many of them could do, since his three older sisters were back home in Monument, Colo., and high school friends were away at colleges all over the United States. Initially reported missing by his parents when they arrived for Parents’ Weekend and couldn’t locate him, 20-year-old Boehm’s body was found several days later in Lake Michigan near Chicago’s Montrose harbor. News of a candlelight vigil and two funerals, one at Northwestern and one at home, were spread through the “Rest in Peace Trevor Jon Boehm” memorial group on Facebook.
Many friends posted photos in the group or wrote messages on his personal page, expressing their grief and saying how much they would miss him. But more than a year after his death, Trevor Boehm’s Facebook friends are still writing to him, updating him on Nip/Tuck episodes he’s missed and Thai dinners he couldn’t attend. “Writing on his Facebook gives me a way to communicate with him because I feel like somehow he knows what’s being written,” says Ali Boehm, his older sister. “I go on there whenever I have a memory or thought of him. It’s a good outlet for just proactively communicating with him.”
A Facebook Profile can be a perpetual “OPEN CASKET” As Facebook and other social networking Web sites become more important to human interaction, these technologies are changing the way people cope with loss. In a world where our digital lives are as real those offline, a person’s Facebook profile postmortem is a virtual open casket. -via www.dailynorthwestern.com
For those who choose to ignore the Facebook Memoralization Option, and do not close the deceased’s account FACEBOOK BECOMES AN ALMOST PERPETUAL MEMORIAL.
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The Doritos Casket ad made the grade in the Superbowl ads of 2010. The ad created by a California church made it into the Superbowl advertising.
Watch the the Video Here.
Mosaic a non-demoninational church, has named their ad “Casket” and it is a great concept in that the guy being buried got his final wish – to be buried in a casket full of Doritos. The only thing is, the guy isn’t really dead, and his pals come to his “rescue” in the end.
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This provides an interesting twist to Television commercials, Entertainment_Culture, Human Interest, Technology_Internet, and business. It is also great Advertising marketing and communication
The Funeral Home that placed the wrong body in the wrong casket for a viewing was not properly registered with the State of Colorado. The State of Colorado has closed Pipkin Funeral Home until it’s investigation of the matter of the wrong body in the wrong Casket is closed. there was also another incident here they buried the deceased in a wrong casket.
The State of Colorado has closed the wrong body, wrong Casket Funeral Home
“The state has ordered a funeral home that mixed up the bodies of two women to close next week so regulators can investigate the incident.
Pipkin Mortuary mistakenly buried the remains of Imogene Jackson, 64, in a casket that should have held Evelyn Jackson.
The interred body was exhumed, and Pipkin held Imogene Jackson’s funeral Saturday.
Chris Lines, spokesman for the Colorado Department of Regulatory Agencies, said the mortuary will be shut down as of Monday as the state investigates.
“We will want an accounting of everything that happened in this situation,” Line said.
Pipkin was already in violation of regulations calling for all funeral homes in the state to register by Jan. 1, Lines said. Funeral homes have had since November to submit their applications.
Pipkin officials brought in their registration application Monday morning.
The state won’t review the application until the investigation is complete.”via www.denverpost.com
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