would a sexy girl make you more likely to buy a coffin?

[karyn]

from ananova

Sex sells - coffins!

An Italian firm of undertakers has unveiled its 2008 calendar - featuring glamour models draped over its range of coffins.



The calendar shows women in sexy underwear posing with coffins which can be ordered from the Cofanifunebri undertakers in Rome.

Owber Maurizio Matteucci defended the calendar - on sale at his firm's outlets for just £7 - which has caused outrage in the Catholic country.

He said: "It is good marketing but it is also but also a way to play down such a serious subject and to smile.

"Coffins are consumer goods like any other things, so I sell in the same way as any other consumer goods are sold. The calendar is very popular."

[Baby_Switchblade]

I think it's kinda hot to be honest, but that's just me... So what you're saying, technically, their calendar is also basically a catalogue? Hmmm.

Italy has some fucking strange calendars. When I was there I saw the same 'priest' calendar all over Rome and Florence... young attractive men dressed as preists... whether or not they actually were, all I could think was "Well you could get the numbers back in Catholic churches...." but yes. They have strange calendars over there.

[Bikerpunk]

I intend on having what's left of me after parts have been scavenged donated to medical science.

Ain't noone to grieve me....

[Mr Karl]

that is a nice coffin in the picture.....quality

[Cafe_Post_Mortem]

I don't know about the coffins, but does anyone have the ordering info on the calender?

Seriously, I prefer honest marketing to the psuedo-sincerity that most funeral type places offer. Sex to sell coffins? Why not, it is better than trying to upsell the grieving widow with "don't you think they deserve the best?"

[Black Spiral Dancer]

I was thinking just the same thing. Where do you order the calender from?

[evilstonermonkey]

"do you come with the coffin?"
"oh you, teeheehee!"