Buy Your Coffin at Costco – Or, Just Build it Yourself

Changing ideas about traditional funeral and burial practices are bringing change to the industry. 

Death planning now includes options like a personalized funeral service where the Good Humor Man passes out ice cream, buying your coffin at Costco, and purchasing jewelery keepsakes that hold a loved one’s ashes. 

Says one may who sells coffin kits to build on your own, “You can stand the box up in the garage, or put it under the pool table for when the time comes.”  Gabrielle Glaser, The Funeral: Your Last Chance to Be a Big Spender, NY Times, April 18, 2009.