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You learn something every day. They use cremation coffins, generally cardboard. Can you get 100% recycled? I just assumed they stuck you in the furnace as is, kind of like a Baked Alaska.
I gave an answer over there. An honest one, but I'm afraid it's not going to be the answer he wants. It's tough to compete in the casket business.
I didn't wear the Darth Vader costume tonight to the Star Trek premiere, as I promised. Sadly, I couldn't convince anyone to go with me. There were a lot of costumed dorks there, though, and I applauded their efforts.
Well I, for one, am glad you didn't wear a Darth Vader costume to the Star Trek premier. My knowledge of sci-fi is limited to having watched (a) the original series of Star Trek and the Patrick Troughton Dr Who series when I was a kid and (b) having seen the original Star Wars in 1977. But even I know that Darth Vader was not in Star Trek. You'd have been set upon by an angry mob, trust me on this.