Lee Harvey Oswald's coffin auctioned for $87,000

NewsDaily ^ | 2010/12/17 | Steve Gorman

[epithermal]

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 17, 2010 (Reuters) — An anonymous buyer has paid more than $87,000 to purchase the wood coffin that held Lee Harvey Oswald's body for 20 years, an auction house said on Friday.

[dfwgator]

[Pontiac]

I know that this is not a popular view...but I can’t understand spending thousands on any coffin. All of that expensive woodwork and COMFORTABLE lining is such a waste.

You’re right but the proper way to think about it is that funerals and all of the accompanying paraphernalia is for the living not the dead.

The coffin, the headstone, the wake they are all for the living. It is part of the social order in how we deal with the deaths of those we love.

The more affluent we become the more we lavish on the dead. It is no different than anything else.

[Pontiac]

Maybe you’re buying DNA?

Highly unlikely.

The enemies of DNA are air, water, bacteria and time. All three have been at that coffin.

The only way you would get DNA is to have gotten a bone with the coffin.

[bannie]

Thank you! I come here to learn!
:-)

I had no idea.

[bannie]

I agree except...my headstone is for ME! ;-) I don’t want to leave without SAYIN’ SOMETHIN’!

I’ve already designed mine. Although I’ll, obviously, never know if it is placed or how long it might endure...I sure like the idea! Come to think of it, I’d like a big, old stone BENCH loaded with stuff I want to say!

Another thing I’d like (I’m so vain that I don’t want to be forgotten!) would be to have “memorial rings” for my kids and grand’s. Shakespeare did that: He left money to friends for memorial rings. COOL IDEA, that!

One hopes, however, that these would not be buried forever...and I sure won’t care about a lovely, pink, frilly and silky pillow upon which to rest my empty, unfeeling, dead head! ;-)

[Pontiac]

I agree except...my headstone is for ME! ;-) I don’t want to leave without SAYIN’ SOMETHIN’!

Well I hope you keep a diary; more people will read it.

The only time you catch me in a cemetery is during a funeral and I don’t go to many of those.

[bannie]

You’re right about the diary. I don’t: I should.

;-)

I love cemeteries. I’ve been to very few funerals; but I love walking around, reading tombstones: They say so much.

[Pontiac]

Maybe you will find this interesting.

Graveyard Rabbit

[bannie]

Thank you! I’m off to explore!! There’s such great history in cemeteries!

[SunkenCiv]

LOLOLOLOL!

[SunkenCiv]

Possible lawn item for the grave:

Google

[The Comedian]

I want the other one, the one buried on the grassy knoll.

Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

[The Comedian]

I want the other one, the one buried on the grassy knoll.

Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.