January 23, 2004

Coca Cola coffin

Young carpenters open a coffin shaped in the form of a Coca Cola bottle in Teshie, a suburb of the Ghanaian capital of Accra January 22, 2004. For about 30 years Ghana has earned a special reputation for the world's most colorful and imaginative coffins for their dead. It's not unusual that fatalities are kept in the fridge of the morgue for almost three weeks until the carpenters have finished their shaped coffins to show mourners the profession or the individuality of the casual. Prizes for an imaginative coffin vary between five and six million Cedis (about 500 to 600 US dollars). REUTERS/Wolfgang Rattay

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