Give Vatican, Star Trek caskets this Christmas

The busiest shopping days of the year are approaching, and many of you are looking for an object that perfectly expresses your feelings for a friend or loved one.

Don't neglect their final hours. A company called Eternal Image can help with "funerary products that celebrate the passions of life."

They offer Precious Moments, Major League Baseball and Cat Fanciers' themes, but those are so 2003. We like two new themes that turn our thoughts to the heavens.

The Vatican Library line represents the first urns and caskets to ever be sanctioned by the Vatican Library. Each includes a Certificate of Authenticity bearing the official Vatican Library Collection seal.

The caskets are "made from a proprietary composite (our own formula) that will not rot," so your loved one will sleep peacefully-- just as if he or she were resting in St. Peter's Basilica.

(Question: Is anybody ever gonna protest at the memorial service, "Hey, that's not a genuine Vatican Library casket. Where's your certificate!" And it's made with a "proprietary composite?" OK, plastic coffins are good. )

The Star Trek-themed ash urns and caskets are "reminiscent of the 24th- century styling of the United Federation of Planets and Starfleet. The styling has been inspired by the popular 'Photon Torpedo' design seen in STAR TREK II: The Wrath of Khan. "

(Wasn't that the movie where Spock's coffin was launched into space and some unstable "proto-matter" set off the Genesis Effect that started that planetary regeneration thing, and he came back to life, and...?)

Oh well. Kitsch, the final frontier.

Via Boing Boing

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