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10:06 November 30th, 2006

Pushing up daisies from a flowered coffin…

Posted by: Robert Basler
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Okay, who wants to die? Ah. Nobody.  Alright, now who wants to die if you can be buried in a casket with colorful hand-painted flowers and butterflies all over it?  There, now I see a few hands raised.  You should go see the painter in this picture.casket300.jpg

 

 

Painter Alfred Opiolka arranges a coffin which he painted in Wertach, about 100 miles south of Munich, November 29, 2006. People find funerals easier to cope with when the coffins are painted, Opiolka says. REUTERS/Michaela Rehle

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