You ever think about how, unlike Mario, humans only have one life and eventually will be consigned back to the earth, never to rise, run, and jump again?<\/p>\n
Hey, me too! And I\u2019ve got some great news\u2014whenever you and I happen to descend that eternal Warp Pipe into oblivion, we can do so in style. Mario style. Check this out:<\/p>\n
This comes from Bignotto (via Voxel<\/a>), a Brazilian urn and coffin manufacturer with an\u2026enthusiastic\u2026social media presence that it\u2019s currently using to advertise Mario-themed coffins. They are uncomplicated things: red, green, or pink, with an interchangeable emblem that can be attached to the front to suggest characters like Mario, Luigi, Yoshi, Peach, and\u2026Toad, for some reason. Because when my loved one dies I definitely want to be thinking about Toad.<\/p>\n The social media vibes on a company that\u2019s all about death and dying are really throwing me, like in this video showing off the same coffins set to the World 1-2 music with \u201cGAME OVER\u201d splashed across the top:<\/p>\n I\u2019m also enjoying scrolling through this Instagram account and observing that the Mario coffins are just the latest in a string of Bignotto\u2019s efforts to make creative pop culture coffins. That bright pink coffin? It\u2019s previously been used for a Barbie coffin, a Hello Kitty coffin, and in tandem with the green, a pair of Fairly OddParents boxes:<\/p>\n If you\u2019ve ever been the responsible party when a loved one dies, you\u2019ve probably seen the wide array of weirdly themed things you can bury people in, including urns dedicated to specific sports teams, animals, or boxes shaped like a baguette<\/a>. Silly as all this looks, there\u2019s something really heartening about an approach to death that embraces what was loved during life and has a healthy sense of humor to go with it. Just don\u2019t let Nintendo\u2019s lawyers know where the bodies are buried.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"You ever think about how, unlike Mario, humans only have one life and eventually will be consigned back…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":612713,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[93460,74,35454],"class_list":["post-612712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-super-mario-bros","tag-technology","tag-the-super-mario-bros-movie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=612712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612712\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/612713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=612712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=612712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=612712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}