Would you join a “coffin club”? Do we need to think about our deaths more? Would planning your funeral make death seem less scary?
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/08/diy-coffins/592777/
Nah, I really don't need a handmade coffin propped up in a hallway to remind me that life is finite, I don't forget that. being comfortable with death isn't about collecting doom swag, even if you are going with practical minimalism and simplicity to make it look like you're at peace with your mortality more than the person who wants to be buried in a coffin that is shaped and painted like a baguette. I'm not worried about my own death anyway. It's the deaths of other people and things that I fear and dread, and I don't think it's good form to make coffins for other people and announce that I'm trying to get comfortable with the idea of them dying. Plus, I like metal work, not wood working.
Also, if I have a coffin I want it to be the baguette one. (or maybe a garlic breadstick if I'm feeling spicy)
I don't think I'd join... I'm not that afraid of talking about death. I'm really young, though, so I haven't planned for my death. I was thinking about it the other day because my insurance company sent me a promotional email to take out a life insurance policy (oh my), but I don't think I'm going to make it a priority until I at least have a spouse/life partner. I don't even need to do anything rn though because if I die (without a will) tomorrow, all my assets will go to my parents and that's just fine with me
Haha. Coffins, funerals, rites etc. are social constructions to make loss and death bearable for the living, not meant to ease the fact we all will die or make the experience of death better for those about to die. Though rites and culture can be a means to let the idea we are mortal more close to ourselves, so we can maybe adapt a bit. But for most a DIY coffin is always the coffin for the others, not for them, even if their name is engraved in it. Most of us simply do not switch their point of view when it could lead to uneasy feelings.
No, I wouldn't personally be joining any social clubs because I am broken, but maybe we should at the very least be able to talk about it more without being considered ghoulish, because lemme tell you, that is a good way to get people to stop returning your calls. Of course, the other side of normalization of death talk is eventually a thousand crass TV commercials for Crazy Eddie's Body Farm and his Labor Day sale
No, I'm too lazy to be makin' a coffin, especially since it's something that won't be of any use to me until I'm somewhere completely different and couldn't care less. Also I'm not sure I want to be coffinated when I die; I just want to be buried, unembalmed, directly in a hole in the ground.
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