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Bury Yourself In Gold...Literally!
With our affluent tastes, standards, culture, and the general need to "live up to the Jones family", it is no surprise to me that fashion and jewelry has seemingly caught up with death itself!
Simply "living in style" is no longer in-vogue. "Dying in style" is now equally important.
Indeed death has now become a venue for which to promote fashion, pomp, and the finest tastes in diamonds and jewelry. That people are buried in their finest jewelry pieces is assuredly old news.
However, now you can even order the casket itself in solid gold!!
This internet mortuary company sells this 24kt. gold coated casket for only.......well.......$10,000 dollars!!
Some might argue that there is no better way to accord a final honor to a loved one than by burying that person in gold...literally. Certainly, if this person lived the same way in life, it would be poignant and touching to recognize this in death......
They will make the case that this has nothing to do with asserting a "style" or being "over the top" in any way...that it is purely about giving a final honor to a loved one.
I personally, could not disagree more...on so many different levels....
Indeed I will never understand this motivation at all...
Then again, this is not the purpose of this blog entry at all....
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