Is it common courtesy to buy your own coffin?

It's better to make your own. You can decorate it, shape it and stuff.

Who cares. Why buy and waste money on one. You'll be dead so y care where your body is going.

Not necessarily. However, it is good to prepare for dying by praying the rosary regularly. medjugorje.org/rosary.htm The fifteen promises of Mary to Christians who recite the rosary: 1.

Whoever shall faithfully serve me by the recitation of the Rosary shall receive signal graces. 2. I promise my special protection and the greatest graces to all those who shall recite the Rosary.3.

The Rosary shall be a powerful armor against Hell, it will destroy vice, decrease sin, and defeat heresies. 4. It will cause virtue and good works to flourish; it will obtain for souls the abundant mercy of God; it will withdraw the hearts of men from the love of the world and its vanities and will lead them to the desire of eternal things.

Oh, that souls would sanctify themselves by this means. 5. The soul which recommends itself to me by the recitation of the Rosary, shall not perish.6.

Whoever shall recite the Rosary devoutly, applying himself to the consideration of its sacred mysteries, shall never be conquered by misfortune. God will not chastise him in he shall not perish by an unprovided death; if he be just, he shall remain in the grace of God and become worthy of eternal life.7. Whoever shall have a true devotion for the Rosary shall not die without the Sacraments of the Church.8.

Those who are faithful to recite the Rosary shall have during their life and at their death the light of God and the plenitude of at the moment of death, they shall participate in the merits of the saints in Paradise.9. I shall deliver from Purgatory those who have been devoted to the Rosary. 10.

The faithful children of the Rosary shall merit a high degree of glory in Heaven.11. You shall obtain all you ask of me by the recitation of the Rosary. 12.

All those who propagate the Holy Rosary shall be aided by me in their necessities. 13. I have obtained from my Divine Son that all the advocates of the Rosary shall have for intercessors the entire Celestial Court during their life and at the hour of death.14.

All who recite the Rosary are my sons, and brothers of my only Son, Jesus Christ. 15. Devotion to my Rosary is a great sign of predestination.

Me, I'd be fine with a simple earth burial. No coffin.

I think so as I don't want my living relatives to be burdened with that. Personally, whatever the cheapest option is, I will go for that. I wish they would start a cemetery that was nothing but a place where it was unmarked graves.

And what it was was a place where you go to be buried and your body feeds the plants in the graveyard. Trees, fruit trees, vegetable gardens, ect. Ect.

And animals get to walk around and partake of it. I think that would be nice.

Don't know if it is common courtesy or not but I am 6'3" tall, over 300 lb and am living in a 3rd world country where people are 5'2" and weight 100-130 lbs.....So yes I will be having mine made and paying for it before the time comes.....just a big plywood piece of crap.....I'll never know. By the way with due respect, Mary is DEAD AND SLEEPING leave her alone....all repeating the Rosary does is make you feel better. For $19.99 I can send you an absolution Certification from Rome Signed by the Popster himself (or at least stamped with his signature).

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I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.