Coffin sofa

Etsy seller VonErickson offers this coffin couch for $3500. It's available in purple, red, or black velvet. The lid closes too. Coffin Couch (Thanks, Patty Trujillo!)

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Anonymous

Just the thing you need if you have to deal with driving instructors from Johannesburg.
Alpha Omicron

Dangit, I thought it was “Coffin soda“. Now I’m disappointed.
Crawford Tillinghast

Oh lord, why am I suddenly having more Young Ones flashbacks..?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nasty_(Young_Ones_episode)
Daemon

@Roy Trumbull – The ending of that story is so very awesome.
Anonymous

So, when you die, can this convert back into a coffin thereby sparing your survivors the expense?
muteboy

Thank heavens for Habitat Sofa-coffins!

The Young Ones caught a South African vampire in one of these. About 5:15 in…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h77FjWsrjBI
Killer Whale

A sofa-coffin (from Habitat, apparently) featured in the Nasty episode of the Young Ones in the early ‘eighties: http://tvtanline.blogspot.com/2007/12/young-ones-nasty-2×03.html
The Jones Ultimatum

OOOhh bad scary.the model looks a little too undead for comfort.
nanuq

I think I’d be nervous about taking a nap on that thing for fear that somebody might stake me.
oasisob1

Couch looks best while wearing ‘stitches choker’.
bearchild

It doesn’t look very comfortable…
sazzamook

Because The Young Ones were fantastic :D
Rossy

@ #5- I thought it said “Coffin soda” also. Weird.
Marchhare

@Muteboy:

Have we got a video?

Love them!
saint_al

Makes any room more Munsters-like.

Release the bats!
Gillagriene

While it looks very cool (and in purple! â™¥), I require furniture that I sit on to be functionally loungable. That looks like it’d be comfortable for about two minutes. Maybe five if I had a sweatshirt on.
laderoda

I love it…I think.

Makes me want to start LARP’ing the vampire thing…kinda.
Anonymous

“recycles”

What happened to the corpse?
Roy Trumbull

A piece of black humor by Carroll M. Capps (AKA C.C. MacApp). Through a computer error the advertising manager for a casket company gets 100 times his normal budget and makes death the new cool thing.
The text for this story is at http://www.gutenberg.org.
Reading of same:
http://www.archive.org/download/AndAllTheEarthAGrave/And_All_the_Earth_a_Grave.mp3
3.14chan

I wonder how would be the coffe table
Brainspore

This innovation will save a lot of trouble for your next of kin if you happen to die while watching T.V. in your living room.