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How to build your own coffin

The modern undertaking industry is a massive con

I have inadvertently built my own coffin. I’m rather pleased with it. It wasn’t meant to be a coffin. It’s actually a boat. My son found a YouTube video on how to make one, and although these videos are normally created by practical men for other practical men (I am the world’s most impractical man), I watched it and thought: “Even I could do that.” It’s essentially an open-top plywood box, eight feet by two feet by one foot, with a 45-degree angle at the front to make it look slightly less like a box.

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