I am going to tell you a grim situation. Could be grim could be not I’ll let you decide that.
And it has to do with a coffin, but from a way different perspective.
Years ago, my aunt with no children was getting — was in a nursing home and she wanted me to go through her things so she could have this that and the other thing and she needed some specific things from her bedroom dressers. And I am the kind of person that does not like digging through other people’s stuff. So when I came back to see my Aunt, I said to her, “I can’t find what you’re looking for, but I did find this”.
What was this? Well, years ago, maybe, you know this from listening to this maybe you don’t know this item, but instead of using CDs, this was in the cassette tape era, and I found a empty cassette — well wasn’t really empty — but I did find a cassette box. So, when I told her I found this, I showed it to her, I opened it up, and there was a picture of a man laying in a casket.
That actually was a picture of her husband that had passed sometime earlier but in a very young version of him.
So I said to my Aunt I said, “So, tell me this.” I said, “What is this?” She said, “Oh, your crazy Uncle. When I was dating him, I asked him to give me a picture of him. At the time, he was studying to be a mortician and that was what he did. He decided because he was a jokester, that he was going to have a friend take a picture while he was laying in the coffin.” Air quotes “sleeping.” And he had the picture printed, and gave it to her so that she would have his picture. He never finished being a mortician or maybe she might have said she wasn’t going to marry him if he continued that career path.