Glass coffins...will they be popular?

[kairos12]

Remains to be seen.

[TalenaGor]

1. ROFL!!!! well played..

[rurallib]

2. This joke should be buried

[kairos12]

3. Your comment I reject as cryptic.

[jberryhill]

6. People in glass coffins shouldn't stow bones

[kairos12]

7. That marrows it down.

[Midnightwalk]

4. Did you know

That the worms that eat your body in the grave glow in the dark?

I guess you could read a book while you were waiting to be devoured.

[Blue Owl]

5. I think it's a clear case

n/t

[NotASurfer]

8. All right, you got a rec for visibility n/t

[yellowdogintexas]

9. I tried really hard to find a picture of Floyd Collins in his glass topped

coffin down in the depths of Crystal Cave, but could not locate one. However until the cave stopped offering tours Floyd was there in his casket to greet the tourists - as my mother put it "Laid out like Dracula at the bottom of the stairs"

In my time with Cave Research Foundation, it was a ritual to take new cavers down to meet Floyd and all our new babies went down to meet him.

Floyd now rests in a traditional grave in the family cemetery within the park boundaries.

Recommended reading: Trapped! by Roger Brucker and Robert Murray Fascinating tale of the world's first media event.

[dalton99a]

10. Here:

Photograph of famous cave explorer, Floyd Collins in his coffin. This photograph was taken in the early 1980's, in the cave where Collins' body was briefly kept, in a coffin with a glass lid.

Occasionally, the guards could be bribed into letting cave visitors view the body - but nobody was allowed to take photographs - making this is a pretty rare image.

The publication of this photograph in an obscure speleological monthly publication was the cause of the glass-covered coffin being removed by the National Park Service to the church graveyard nearby.