Ring coffin brings divorce finality

Published: Sept. 2, 2007 at 8:46 PM
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NEW YORK, Sept. 2 (UPI) -- A New York woman has come up with a symbolic way to deal with the symbol of marriage when a marriage dies -- a wedding ring coffin.

Jill Testa, 49, says she needed closure after her 20-year marriage ended last year, even though she and her husband split up their possessions "mutually and amicably," The Star Tribune in Minneapolis reported Saturday. The answer came to her at a funeral -- little coffins for wedding rings.

Testa and her brother, Steve, set up weddingringcoffin.com, where for $30 to $35 you can buy miniature, solid-wood coffins with a mahogany finish, velvet interior and a lid allowing for an open or closed casket. The coffins also come with an engraved brass plaque with such messages as: "Bury the past and move on" or "Six feet isn't deep enough!"

Testa, who keeps her own ring coffin on a shelf, says "if it makes people feel better to bury it, or toss it in a river, then that's a good thing."


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