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09:58 June 9th, 2006

A Coke bottle: the shape of eternity?

Posted by: Robert Basler
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Welcome to Ghana, where fantasy coffins come in amazing designs, shaped as Coca-Cola bottles, chickens, cars, cameras, birds, bibles…  As one academic in this impoverished nation explains, “If you can’t acquire it, you can at least be buried in it.” Read about it here:coke300.jpg

 

 

 

Carpenters lift a coffin shaped like a Coca Cola bottle in Teshie, a suburb of the Ghanaian capital of Accra, January 22, 2004. REUTERS/Wolfgang Rattay

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next time ferrari will do

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