The caskets are also available in larger sizes, in the Dimension series, to provide "a more comfortable fit for your loved one" — although this is clearly not needed for Jackson. I can't imagine how much a bronze oversized casket would weigh, but the regular-sized model housing Jackson's remains requires extra pallbearers and a special heavy-duty crane for interment.
I'm sure Jackson looked his best in a casket as solid and substantial as he was fragile and evanescent. After a life of excess it seems petty to criticize him for this final luxury, and to be fair I was actually surprised that the casket only cost $25,000 given the materials, quality of manufacture, and general inflation of costs in the funeral products market.
It did make me reconsider my own burial plans. I may put on hold my scheme to be buried in a hermetically sealed pyramid with a live webcam so people can view my deteriorating body from a monitor on the outside of the tomb. After seeing how the King of Pop went out, I'm thinking I might try something more humble.
Heaven or hell, nirvana or oblivion, there's no question that Jackson is going there in style in this Cadillac Brougham of caskets. But on reflection I think I'll stick with a rough pine box. It may be a buckboard wagon, but at least I'll be driving it myself.
Article comments
1 - Joanne Huspek
Cremation and a scattering on Ocean Beach. Why waste the money?
Oh, yeah. I guess he had it, so he can.
2 - Chilperic
Burial is more organic?
And MJ didn't have a red cent left to his name. He died millions in debt.