Illinois Man Orders Custom Beer-can Coffin

[Miranda]

Mon May 5, 2008

SOUTH CHICAGO HEIGHTS, Ill. - Bill Bramanti will love Pabst Blue Ribbon eternally, and he's got the custom-made beer-can casket to prove it. "I actually fit, because I got in here," said Bramanti of South Chicago Heights.

The 67-year-old Glenwood village administrator doesn't plan on needing it anytime soon, though.

He threw a party Saturday for friends and filled his silver coffin — designed in Pabst's colors of red, white and blue — with ice and his favorite brew.

"Why put such a great novelty piece up on a shelf in storage when you could use it only the way Bill Bramanti would use it?" said Bramanti's daughter, Cathy Bramanti, 42.

Bramanti ordered the casket from Panozzo Bros. Funeral Home in Chicago Heights, and Scott Sign Co. of Chicago Heights designed the beer can.

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Good for him... I love it when people do things that will make their loved ones laugh a little after they're gone

Someone emailed me pix a while ago, of the Ultimate Steelers Fan's funeral. They had the guy laid out in a fuckin' LaZ Boy, wearing all his Steelers gear, with a big ass TV playing a Steelers game in front of him. He had the remote in his hand & errthing... and various other Steelers paraphernalia arranged around him. It was truly mind-blowing... I can't imagine how much the funeral home must've charged the family.

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Good for him... I love it when people do things that will make their loved ones laugh a little after they're gone

Someone emailed me pix a while ago, of the Ultimate Steelers Fan's funeral. They had the guy laid out in a fuckin' LaZ Boy, wearing all his Steelers gear, with a big ass TV playing a Steelers game in front of him. He had the remote in his hand & errthing... and various other Steelers paraphernalia arranged around him. It was truly mind-blowing... I can't imagine how much the funeral home must've charged the family.

That's hysterical.