Everything Old Is New Again

Yes, yes, the Inquirer’s story about Phillies caskets. You’ve all sent me links to this, posted it to your own blogs, whatever.

I remember this story, when I wrote about it in October 2006. Oh, so now the company is going to have caskets in addition to urns. (They’ve sold 50 urns, apparently.) I know that everything is old to me nowadays, since I read the entire Internet every day, but I am apparently so far ahead of the curve on sports-related burial news.

Or, you know, maybe it is shocking that company offering sports urns would then move to begin offering sports caskets. I do agree it is shocking that one of the eight teams selected for the first line of caskets is a Philadelphia one, though.

On a side note, what’s getting really annoying is people telling you they’ve already seen something when you show it to them. That’s so 1998.

Update: My mom writes in with an editorial correction: “No, no. You’re wrong. A team that consistently kills you every year is the perfect one to offer caskets and urns.” She’s right.

Coming: Funeral caskets with Phils logos [Inquirer]
Oct. 19, 2006: First Customer Next Season: Team’s Playoff Hopes

This Sounds Like A Fun Way To Spend Friday Night

Moore says at a Friday night skating party at the Elmwood Skating Rink, a funeral wreath will be on display as well as an urn containing the ashes of a youth shot in a senseless act of violence[.]

Well, it’s still better than skating at Palace.

Activist Gives Phila. Teens a No-Nonsense Antiviolence Message [KYW 1060]
Related: Milton Street Does The Same Thing, But With A Coffin

First Customer Next Season: Team’s Playoff Hopes

Jim Simmons was apparently a big Phillies fan.

Okay, well, Jim Simmons is apparently just a placeholder name for the first of what will eventually be a full line of urns for dedicated fans for all the major league clubs. (Starting next season, the first clubs will be the Tigers, Red Sox, Yankees, Dodgers, Cubs and Phillies.) Urns will be available opening day; caskets later in the year.

But it’s not just the Phillies. The National Funeral Directors association meeting is in Philadelphia this week and look what other caskets there are:

At this year’s convention, for instance, there was a Harley Davidson-themed casket and one featuring Betty Boop.

Betty Boop? Who the hell would be buried in that besides Betty herself? Then again, I guess you could ask a similar question about the Phillies casket.

A Cremation Phillies Fans Could Die For [AP/NBC 10]