IconoclasT wrote:
] Do you have to present your member card prior to burial?
]
] Supplier says warehouse retailer is testing six styles at
] two of its Chicago-area locations.
] August 17, 2004: 11:32 AM EDT
]
]
]
] NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - Warehouse retailer Costco Wholesale,
] bulk seller of products to help save you money in life, is
] offering a way to save money in death, too.
]
] The Issaquah, Wash.-based No. 1 wholesale club operator is
] testing six models of steel caskets at two of its locations in
] the Chicago area.
]
] "We're trying to offer value to our customers like with
] everything else that we sell," said Gary Ojendyk, Costco's
] general manager of merchandising.
] Ojendyk said the retailer has set up a special order program
] in which customers can select a casket in either of the two
] locations and have it shipped to their mortuary of choice
] within 48 hours.

You could always just have it hanging around your neck, I think that would work! Wonder how good of a deal they offer?

RE: Caskets, for less, at Costco