Aren't coffins unnecessarily long?

All of them seem too long. Americans are fat, so they're probably the right width.

• It's a waste of wood.

• ELDERGAY THREAD.

• And bathtubs aren't long enough!

• Please, get real, get cremated. Who do people think they are? King Tut?

• Cremation is the best way to go. Land is for the living. So many beautiful property given to the dead. Such a waste. Natural burial is the most green, but it's not widely available, especially when you live in a big city.

• R2's little friend will sit on him on the couch in his mother's basement watching TV until he starts to stink too much. Then they'll go over to Chip's mother's basement.

• It so they have a place to put the garbage bag with your brain and other organs after autopsy.

• Well, if we chop off the legs after death, coffins and cemetary plots could be 1/2 as big. This could work out nicely.

• The extra space can be useful for the deceased to have a cooler or TV or what have you.

• [quote]It's a waste of wood. Trees are a renewable resource.

• I should add that the legs could be stuffed in the coffin with the torso.

  R8

• People are buried in "caskets." Coffins went the way of the black and white cowboy movies where we used to see them.

  Frank E. Campbell