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From Death to Life


By Sarah K. Burkhalter and Sarah van Schagen
09 May 2008
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1

We'll undertake 'er

Feeling deathly ill? Rest in peace on one of these slightly used sofas. Sure, they were coffins in another life, but now they're in a better place: your living room!
 
2

Love those British chicks

You can thank global warming for an abundance of great tits.
 
3

Ewes you can use

Let us get scentimental: Wool you believe they make air fresheners out of poo? You herd it here first. But we're a bit sheepish about trying this poo-pourri.
 
4

Polluters should have toupee

Thanks to rising levels of air pollution in urban areas, the once-endangered comb-over is hanging on by a hair.
 
5

Mum's the word

Don't forget: this weekend is the mother of all holidays. Sure, yo' mama would love some swag ... but Mother Earth might prefer you offer something sustainably stuff-free. After all, hugs are a renewable resource.
 

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Sarah K. Burkhalter is Grist's news producer.
Sarah van Schagen is Grist's assistant editor.
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You recycled what?

Recycled coffins?  This has to be a joke!  Not only is the coffin cast-off quota probably pretty low (though I'm sure coffin manufacturing is resource intensive), any environmental benefit one might be providing by using a coffin as a couch surely doesn't offset the health consequences of vinyl and 'potentially exchanged' bodily or embalming fluids from...ahem...dead bodies.  Not to mention that coffins, like FEMA trailers, aren't constructed for long-term use by the living.  

While I'll rescue the occasional homeless couch from an alley, even I have to draw the line here.

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