Hans Rademaker, a Dutch designer has invented a bookcase that can be turned into a coffin after the owner’s death, saying it is for people who want to buy a coffin but find the idea morbid.
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After the owner dies, the bookcase’s seven shelves can be fitted together to make the coffin lid. He told Algemeen Dagblad that he got the idea when he was an art student in Utrecht.

“I realised people don’t want to talk about the death. So I made my own coffin so it could also be used as a bookcase that looks fine in a study or a dining room.” He has now reached an agreement with Dutch public libraries to install the coffin in all libraries.The bookcases cost nearly £700 while a cheap coffin in Holland costs only about £250. “I know it’s expensive but for that money you have a very beautiful bookcase and a strong coffin at the same time.”