Forever blitzed: Illinois man orders custom beer-can coffin

[KansDem]

2 days ago

SOUTH CHICAGO HEIGHTS, Ill. (AP) — 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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[coriolis]

1. He should have it filled with a good Lager, he can be pickled forever!

:D

[TomInTib]

2. I love it.

It would almost be worth being buried, just to have a casket such as that one.

[poppysgal]

3. I hope they have good security

because the price of aluminum is pretty good right now.:toast:

[wain]

4. Jean Shepherd - "Beer is the mother of us all"

Jean Shepherd of WOR New York late night story telling fame in the fifties and sixties. He also wrote the famous "A Christmas Story" shown on TV each year.

[Berry Cool]

5. "PBR me DOA." n/t