The Dead Won’t Rest In Peace Anymore As Man Designs Coffin With Built-In
Speakers Linked To A Music Playlist
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 199,000 Swedish crowns (N4.8m).
“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.
With the high-tech
coffin and craze for technology in the world today, the dead may not rest in
peace anymore. [Reuters]
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