With Valentine’s Day approaching we rack our brains for a gift. Roses? Chocolate? A couple’s coffin? huh!
It is true that there is such a thing. if you plan right, you do not need to take the phrase “till death do us part” to heart. Your bodies could spend eternity together. It is common to see couples have their graves next to each other in the same plot. It is also common to have families share plots and graves. So why not a couple’s coffin!
This is not new idea
Just recently, Archaeologists exhumed two hugging skeletons at an ancient burial site in China.
this ancient Chinese couple, buried embracing, dates to the Northern Wei dynasty (386-534).Photo byInternational Journal of Osteoarcheology
The tomb was one of 600 found in an ancient cemetery unearthed at a construction site in Datong, in Shanxi province in 2020. It is thought that the couple likely lived during the Northern Wei dynasty (386–534). What is even more romantic, she still wears a plain silver band on her ring finger.
Souder couple July 1921.Photo byPublic Domain