Comments on: COFFIN SHELVES: ww.modcom’s Shelves For Life

By: Zoe

Zoe — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 23:48:39 +0000

Where can you get order one of these from????

By: M. P. Garrett

M. P. Garrett — Tue, 01 May 2007 21:34:37 +0000

Even in life we are in the midst of death. As clergy and daily faced with the tragedy of helping families deal with the details left by people who lived in constant denial of their own mortality I think this is a gentle, whimsical way for people to engage with the fact that none of us get out of this world alive. Our ancestors were much more honest about keeping mortality in view. The memento mori was a part of the fabric of society and people’s lives. Even Roman Emperors, as they rode victorious through the streets, would have a slave behind them whispering “memento mori”. Perhaps if we all kept our own death in front of us we would be less willing to tolerate what hastens that for ourselves and for others as well!
P.S. I think it looks great as furniture and just fine as a biodegradable corpse keeper!

By: edw.a.roth

edw.a.roth — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 14:47:34 +0000

I gleefully hope they sell as many as those who work for the company that designed them.

By: Hans Rademaker

Hans Rademaker — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 15:18:50 +0000

It is a very good idea and William Warrens bookshelve may even reach a larger public than my own design which was mainly designed for starting up a discussion about death as a part of life.

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Maggie Wang Kenobi » Blog Archive » Ya, ya, superya, que yastán aquí — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 17:15:54 +0000

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By: lorne

lorne — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 00:53:32 +0000

Im training to be a counsellor and also doing a bereavement course and i said to everyone that i wanted a bookshelve that could turn into a coffin and they were cracking up! i reckon its great and I WANT ONE!!!

By: Renske

Renske — Sat, 06 Jan 2007 06:18:23 +0000

i have to ask. why would you care what ur buried in? ur dead!

By: Matt

Matt — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 21:14:15 +0000

dual purpose items are cool
but why a coffin/bookshelf?!?!?

By: Reese

Reese — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 09:49:50 +0000

Coffin/bookshelf? good idea, but do you really want to be buried in a coffin that.. poorly built?
i think the human brain can think of a little better dual-purpose, everyday items.

By: Pedro DePacos

Pedro DePacos — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 16:24:13 +0000

Can I get this at IKEA?

By: Christopher

Christopher — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 07:34:50 +0000

hahaha…I’m gonna send this to my friend who is a mortician…He’ll LOVE it!!!

By: Brittany

Brittany — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 03:38:40 +0000

Thats a crappy coffin i’d hate to be buried in that. nice bookshelf tho.

By: John

John — Tue, 02 Jan 2007 20:25:51 +0000

Everything we own should have dual purposes… a bookshelf/coffin, a coffeemaker/transfusion device, a remote control that cuts your hair…the list is endless. But just for kicks, why don’t we use our innovative brains to solve real problems like disease and hunger? But yeah the bookshelf is cool though…

By: shelby

shelby — Tue, 02 Jan 2007 19:44:52 +0000

i love it. we’re always reminded that we’re going to die. theres no way that we cant be.
and i think that if we’re going to waste wood on a bookshelf thats just going to end up in the trash heap once were done with it, well.. we shouldnt let it go to waste

:] i want one.

By: dan

dan — Tue, 02 Jan 2007 19:31:12 +0000

personaly i think its a stupid idea, no one wants to be reminded there gonna die, much less, see it everymoring, hey i want a book, and oh yeah, im gonna be dead in that thing one day