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Coffins to die for

Frankly, I wouldn’t be seen dead in a coffin shaped like a bottle of the finest claret – although, goodness me, I will have drunk enough of the stuff by the time I sidle up to the great bar in the sky.

But plenty of others would. There’s been something of a run on unorthodox coffins and caskets in the last decade or so – and it’s an ongoing trend.

This is good news for a company called Crazy Coffins, based in Nottingham, where

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