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Radio 4,5 mins

You can design your coffin in any shape you want

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Tom Dyckhoff examines the importance of design after death. He considers the option of a bespoke coffin designed in a range of replica shapes from musical instruments to cars, trains, planes and boats and hears from a woman who has already planned her green funeral in a coffin shaped like a pink satin ballet shoe. First broadcast on The Design Dimension, 19 April 2016.

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