Teacher's Coffin Covered with Children's Drawings

A teacher's coffin was decorated with drawings from the students who loved her.

Past and present pupils of the school sang at the funeral, and covered Mrs East’s coffin with drawings of fairies, butterflies, love hearts, rainbows and ‘fairy dust’. Tributes paid by pupils said that they ‘loved’ their headteacher, adding she was: ‘Fun, lovely, exotic, glittery, the best teacher, kind, caring, taught us to believe in ourselves, sprinkled fairy dust everywhere.’

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Coffin painting – an inspiring story – Kicking the Bucket Festival

"We’d like a plain white cardboard coffin, so we can paint it,” we said, when handed a catalogue of satin lined heavy wooden caskets at the undertakers. “We need a mix of poems, songs and stories, from every tradition, yes, the Kaddish, yes ‘ransomed, healed, restored, forgiven,’ yes to Elizabeth Bishop, Bob Dylan, Shakespeare. A big yes to flowers!"

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The coffin club: elderly New Zealanders building their own caskets | World news | The Guardian

"Quilting, lawn bowls and bridge it is not. Elderly people in New Zealand are enthusiastically embracing a new pastime: coffin construction. Scores of retirees across the country have formed clubs so they can get together and build their own coffins. They say the activity is cost-saving and helps to combat loneliness."

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