When my father died back in 1985 he was cremated. I think they had a provision for a rental coffin for the service. My dad in his best years had a terrific sense of humor, and didn’t mind occasionally offending others with it. He was probably looking down and getting great pleasure out of knowing his last home before that urn was a rented coffin!
LOL. sounds like my mother-in-law. she was a hoot. tall, slender, could have been a model....but was a high school gym teacher for 30 years. we KNOW she is dead because she would have raised holy hell at what we had to pay for a coffin. my dear stepFIL drove what was left of her in a shoebox. my husband and his brother kept out a bit in a test tube...one for each family. Our girls (young at the time) took turns holding that testtube the whole 3-hr drive home. child #1 kept shaking it...swearing something chunky was in there. we said it was probably part of her gold tooth. child #2 kept yelling, “stop shaking grandma!”. she would have loved it. we were/are so tacky and classless. she was a recovering alcoholic the last 30 years of her life; naturally, we placed that testtube in the liquor cabinet and told her to have at it. :P