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Hans Rademaker, a Dutch designer has invented a bookcase that can be turned into a coffin<\/strong> after the owner’s death, saying it is for people who want to buy a coffin but find the idea morbid.
– Here it is<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

After the owner dies, the bookcase’s seven shelves can be fitted together to make the coffin lid. He told Algemeen Dagblad<\/a> that he got the idea when he was an art student in Utrecht.<\/p>\n

“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.”<\/em> 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.”<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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.– Here it is After the owner dies, the bookcase’s seven shelves can be fitted together to make the coffin […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogalog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}