No rest for the dead with surround-sound coffin
The price tag for the musical coffin is a hefty 199,000 Swedish crowns ($30,700).
A Swedish man has designed a coffin with built-in speakers linked to a music playlist that can be updated by the living.
Music and video equipment store owner Fredrik Hjelmquist said his hi-fi coffin would entertain the dead and provide solace for grieving friends and relatives by making it possible for them to alter the deceased s playlist online.
"We don t know, right? But then people believe in different ways in different parts of the world," Hjelmquist told Reuters television when he was asked whether a belief in life after death was what would lead someone to buy his coffin.
"In Sweden perhaps we don t believe in it, but in many parts of the world people believe in a different way," he said.
He planned to be buried in such a coffin, he added, and would choose opera for his long sleep. He has not sold any of his coffins, but there have been many enquiries, he added.
The price tag is a hefty 199,000 Swedish crowns ($30,700).
"We ve had an unbelievable amount of inquiries, not so much in Sweden, but many from the United States and Canada, also from Taiwan," he said.
"Ozzy Osbourne should buy one I think or Keith Richards. Somebody ought to do it because this is really rock n roll I think...but at the same time beautiful," he said.
