I have mentioned this before, but when my husbands mother died, she was lying in state at her home,(that part i did not really like ) for a few days, all the family, grandkids, including my daughter were down there decorating her coffin, it was bright blue, as she was a music teacher, of course there were lots of things relating to that, we could all write messages inside the coffin, which I did.

It was the most unusal thing I have ever seen, all while granny was lying there, but it seemed to be very good for the children, it was my daughters first experience of death, she was nine years old at the time, and when our cat Sooti died, she did exactly the same thing for him, made a coffin out of a box and decorated it with messages inside and out from us all.

Granny was a very eccentric old lady, and she would have been thrilled to bits if she knew, that all her family did this for her.