Would You Buy a Used Casket???
By LadyMarissa
@LadyMarissa (12148)
United States
December 1, 2010 10:19pm CST
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40451062/ns/us_news-weird_news/?GT1=43001
Many of you will remember that Lee Harvey Oswald was accused of assassinating President John F Kennedy back in November 1963. He was murdered shortly thereafter by Jack Ruby. It seems that the casket that Lee Harvey Oswald was buried in is now up for sale at an auction. The beginning bid is set at $1,000, but it is expected to sell for MUCH MORE!!! It seems that there was a family dispute between Oswald's wife & brother & his body was exhumed. When he was reburied, the original pine casket was discarded. That pine casket is on the auction block. Maybe it's just me, but why would anyone want to buy a used casket??? Yes, I understand that Oswald was buried in it & he's an important historical figure. But WHY would anybody spend that kind of money to own his casket??? And where would you keep a used casket once you bought it??? I can't imagine throwing a party to invite friends over to see your used casket!!! So, inquiring minds want to know...would you want to buy a used casket & what would you do with it once you owned it??? There is NO wrong answer to this discussion!!!
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@AJsMom (157)
• Philippines
2 Dec 10
Considering the fact that it had been a storage for a decaying human body, how would you stomach that idea. But lol!, the one to be placed in that would decompose as well. But really, I find it really bizarre. Even if I have a lot of space in my house, I wouldn't even dare to keep it inside a stockroom. It is horrible and such a waste and actually senseless. On the practical side, it is wiser to buy a memorial plan instead.:)
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@LadyMarissa (12148)
• United States
3 Dec 10
Bizarre is a good word for it!!! I wouldn't want it sitting in my home & I find it a total WASTE of money to buy it & put it in storage just for the bragging rights of saying I own it!!! I wonder about the brother's sanity. First he takes the rights to the body away from the wife & then he tries to sell his brother's used casket. This seems somewhat bizarre to me!!!!
@LauraElrod (418)
• United States
2 Dec 10
Well first of all that seems nasty to me, his body decayed in it, I don't think anyone would reuse it but keep it to make some kind of money.i can't even think where i would sore it let alone use it ugh. so no i would not use it.
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@LadyMarissa (12148)
• United States
3 Dec 10
YES, it is NASTY!!!! As said above, it's almost as nasty as buying used underwear at a yard sale!!!! I feel that if anything were to be done with it, the brother should have donated it to the Kennedy Library & taken a tax deduction for the donation. I feel it is sacrilegious to sale a used casket!!!!
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@p1kef1sh (45681)
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2 Dec 10
I suppose that there are folk with an appreciation of things ghoulish who might want it. Our neighbours told us that about 30 years ago the people that owned our house kept a casket - or coffin as we call it - in our conservatory! Maybe they were Boy Scouts "Be Prepared"! LOL.
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@LadyMarissa (12148)
• United States
3 Dec 10
Casket/Coffin are interchangeable here!!! The bidding on this casket/coffin starts at $1,000 but is expected to hit the hundreds of thousands of dollars before the bidding is over. All I can think of is how many hungry children could be fed with that much money!!!! 
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@mentalward (14690)
• United States
2 Dec 10
I think that whomever gets that casket is after it for it's historical value. At least, that's the idea; I'd hate to think that they were simply especially morbid people. Of course, there are people like that in the world.
Now, me? If I had money up the wazzu, I might buy a cheap casket as a Halloween decoration only but not for any other reason. I think it's a shameful waste of money to buy something like Oswald's casket just to own Oswald's casket but there is a buyer for everything.
When I met the Rolling Stones, I was wearing a jacket that I had made myself. It had their famous tongue/lips logo on the back in sequins. I got hugs from Ron Wood and Keith Richards so the jacket is something they actually touched. I decided to sell the jacket because I didn't see any need and had no desire to keep it after I met the guys. I put it on eBay and it sold for $300.00!!! Amazing. Something that cost me MAYBE $20.00 to make (it was crushed velvet with the sequins) and sold for $300.00, simply because two really old musicians touched it. Granted, they were Rolling Stones but, still, they're only human.
It boggles the mind. 
@Opal26 (17679)
• United States
2 Dec 10
Hey LadyM! There are way too many whacked out people in this
world so I wouldn't put it past anyone to buy the "used casket"
just for "fun". Being that is once held such a sick and twisted
person and has historic value there will definitely be someone
and probably many who will actually want the casket, just because...
Nothing surprises me in this world today! Someone will buy it just
to say they have the casket that Oswald was buried in and probably
put it on display! I bet it goes for a very large sum of money.
It will just prove how sick someone is and how they will think
that they got something that is a serious part of history, and
how sad that will be! Makes me sick to even think about it~
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@hardworkinggurl (37063)
• United States
2 Dec 10
OMG, no never even if it was lined in gold as the mere thought of someone once, whether celebrity or not gives me the creeps. It is tough enough to have to purchase a new one for a loved one, I can't even imagine owning one just because, let alone to place my loved ones body in it. LOL... eekk
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@LadyMarissa (12148)
• United States
2 Dec 10
I do understand what you're saying!!! I've been hoping that whoever buys it will donate it to a museum. Then again, I have NO desire to go through a museum & look at the casket Lee Harvey Oswald was originally buried in!!!! Makes me wonder if he was really killed or if that was just a ruse??? It's like why was the body exhumed & why was it reburied in a different casket??? Gives me some new research for my evening!!!! 
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@GardenGerty (160696)
• United States
3 Dec 10
I rented a casket for my husband's viewing. I had him cremated and did not need to keep the casket.I am sure it has been rented many times.
Would I buy a casket that had belonged to someone who was notorious, like Oswald--NO.
What can be done with a pine casket? I have known people who would use it like a coffee table. It would make good storage.
Would I buy a casket that had belonged to someone who was notorious, like Oswald--NO. What can be done with a pine casket? I have known people who would use it like a coffee table. It would make good storage.1 person likes this
@beaniefanatic13 (5076)
• Grand Junction, Colorado
2 Dec 10
Interesting, the only reason that I might buy a used casket that someone historically famous was once burried in would be to donate it to a historical musuem, that is if I had money to throw away. (I would probably need the tax right off. )I can't imagine most people wanting something like that for themselves, as a show piece, number one just the room that it would take up.
As an afterthought maybe a vampire looking for a new place to rest.
)I can't imagine most people wanting something like that for themselves, as a show piece, number one just the room that it would take up.
As an afterthought maybe a vampire looking for a new place to rest. 1 person likes this
@LadyMarissa (12148)
• United States
3 Dec 10
I feel it should have been donated to the Kennedy Library BEFORE being offered for sale to the highest bidder!!! I also feel that anybody with hundreds of thousands of dollars to waste should feed the hungry children in their city!!! There are MANY MORE ways to use that kind of money!!!! I've lived 47 years without seeing Lee Harvey Oswald's casket & I don't feel it is such an important item that I can't live the rest of my life without seeing it!!!!
@silentwill (1685)
• Philippines
2 Dec 10
Definitely no. It doesn't matter who used it.
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@LadyMarissa (12148)
• United States
3 Dec 10
I agree with you!!!! I don't care who was in it before, I would NOT want it!!!! 
@BarBaraPrz (47352)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
2 Dec 10
Yeah, I saw that this morning... and thought it a bit gruesome.
I can understand a museum wanting it, but not a private citizen, no matter how much they're taken up with the conspiracy.
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@LadyMarissa (12148)
• United States
3 Dec 10
UmHmmm. I really feel it should have been donated to the Kennedy Library in place of being sold to the highest bidder!!! I find the idea of selling it to be quite unnerving!!!!
@LadyMarissa (12148)
• United States
2 Dec 10
I just don't see the logic behind this one!!! Now if a museum purchased it, that might make sense. However, I don't think I would want a used coffin sitting in my den!!!! Morbid things don't usually bother me, but this sends chills up my spine!!!!
@CynergyDiva (805)
• Canada
4 Dec 10
No, I don't think the average Joe or Josephine would want a used casket in his or her den. But then, we're not just talking used caskets for the purpose of re - use; we're talking collecting, so the casket would be of some significance; either historical or other infamy of sorts. Still, I personally would not want to buy a coffin regardless of it's historical value, but those who do probably don't live in a regular house in the burbs. They probably have homes similar to museums and so an item like this would be displayed in a way that wouldn't look out of place as it would in the dens of the rest of us.
xoxo
Cyne
@Loen210 (1540)
• United States
4 Dec 10
Hi LadyM and Cynergy,
Yes, historical or infamy- in the newspaper this week, it showed about the coffin for the killer of John F. Kennedy is currently in auction, I think till Dec. 16th. But eeek! And first off, you'd have to have a humungous, spacious house with lots of spare space to keep things like that. Id' think if kept at all, it would belong more in a museum.
@goldeneagle (6745)
• United States
4 Dec 10
It seems to me that a museum or historical society of some sort would be the ones who would be willing to scoop this up. I am surprised that some museum in Washington, D.C. hasn't purchased it already as part of some sort of presidential history display or something.
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@LadyMarissa (12148)
• United States
4 Dec 10
I believe it should go to the Kennedy Library period. I'm of the belief that the US Government paid for the coffin back in 1963. I haven't found anything on the spat between Oswald's wife & brother. I did find that his wife gave our Government permission to exhume Oswald'a body in order to prove it was him & not a Russian secret agent that was buried there. I haven't found anything explaining why he was reburied in a different coffin. Actually, NONE of this makes sense to me. I just know that NO matter how much money I had, I would NOT buy that coffin!!!!
@tamarafireheart (15384)
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2 Dec 10
Hi LayM
I for one would not like to own Oswald's casket even if it was gieven to me, as he was a murderer, don't care how infamou he was and no I wouldn't want a used or new casket in my house as it will give me the shivers.
Tamara
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@quita88 (3715)
• United States
4 Dec 10
First of all, I don't understand why Oswald is considered an important historical figure......
He killed the best President our country has known.
Still the fact remains, there are SICK people in our world and they just have to show off with a casket of a murderer................
Sick, sick, people........
@shaggin (72141)
• United States
3 Dec 10
Wow that is really weird. I cant imagine someone wanting to own a casket let alone own a casket that a presumed murderer was buried in. What would anyone want a casket for I really cant imagine. That would not be something that I would want to own and show my friends. I think it would creep them all out not excite them.
@sender621 (14894)
• United States
4 Dec 10
This wouod have to depend on the condition the casket is in and the price I am quoted for it. Burying a loved one is tough enough without deciding to buy a new or used casket. Only you would know the difference. It doesn;t make you care any more or less.
@Lance26 (956)
• Philippines
3 Dec 10
Firstly, I don't have the money to buy such one. Secondly, I don't have a good place for a used casket and I don't want to spend even a single night with it. Thirdly, what's with the used casket? I'm sorry to say but I'm not really into this kind of thing.
@LadyMarissa (12148)
• United States
3 Dec 10
I don't have the money either. Even if I did, I wouldn't waste it on a used coffin!!!
You seemed confused. Did you go to the article that I referenced so ALL this would make more sense to you??? So far, nobody has admitted to being excited to having a used coffin!!! I think the person who buys this one will probably think of it as a financial investment. I see it as an extremely SICK idea!!!!
