No, I Said I Wanted to Be Buried in an Air Jordan

Underwire, one of the blogs over at blog.wired.com, posted this story yesterday about a West African tribe that buries its dead in "fantasy coffins."

"Plain rectangular caskets are so passé. For the past four decades, the Ga tribe in Ghana have celebrated the deceased by designing 'fantasy coffins'. These resting places are made to symbolize the livelihood of the person inside of them -- a fisherman is laid to rest in a giant wooden fish or a seamstress is tucked away in a sewing machine."