Choose a playlist for the after life
2013-01-11 22:01
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Stockholm - A Swedish man has designed a coffin with
built-in speakers linked to a music playlist that can be updated by the living.
Music and video equipment store owner Fredrik Hjelmquist
said his hi-fi coffin would entertain the dead and provide solace for grieving
friends and relatives by making it possible for them to alter the deceased's
playlist online.
"We don't know, right? But then people believe in
different ways in different parts of the world," Hjelmquist told Reuters
television when he was asked whether a belief in life after death was what
would lead someone to buy his coffin.
"In Sweden perhaps we don't believe in it, but in
many parts of the world people believe in a different way," he said.
He planned to be buried in such a coffin, he added, and
would choose opera for his long sleep. He has not sold any of his coffins, but
there have been many enquiries, he added.
The price tag is a hefty $30 700.
"We've had an unbelievable amount of inquiries, not
so much in Sweden, but many from the United States and Canada, also from
Taiwan," he said.
"Ozzy Osbourne should buy one I think or Keith
Richards. Somebody ought to do it because this is really rock n' roll I
think...but at the same time beautiful," he said.
