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The Inventor of the Screw-In Coffin

posted by Jason Kottke   Mar 03, 2022

patent drawings for a coffin that you can screw into the ground

In 2009, mechanical engineer Donald Scruggs received a patent for a
hermetically sealed coffin that can be screwed into the ground. David
Friedman made a short documentary about Scruggs and his screw-in
coffin.

    I was with some friends having a couple of drinks and one of them
    mentioned he had to go talk to some people about an automatic
    grave digger, which meant a huge amount of dirt removal. And I
    said, "Why don't we just make a big large carrot shaped thing
    with threads around it and screw it into the ground?"

Scruggs says that burying someone in his coffin is "no more trouble
than putting a fencepost in".

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