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New Zealand's 'coffin clubs' bury taboos about death

Elderly New Zealanders meet for cups of tea and a task of grave importance: building DIY caskets that they will one day use themselves.

Video by AFP

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00:00 [Sawing]
00:07 [Sawing]
00:12 [Sawing]
00:15 It's a basic design of a coffin.
00:21 And then I've added the Austin theme to it,
00:25 because I'm an Austin, vintage Austin car club man.
00:29 It weighs quite a bit, and I'm quite a big man.
00:32 And I've said to my six grandsons that I'd better start weight training,
00:37 because they will be carrying it one day.
00:40 [Sawing]
00:45 [Hammering]
00:47 [Sawing]
00:51 [Chatter]
00:55 Very happy, lots of jokes.
00:59 And I think, well, not I think, everybody that's here has accepted
01:03 that they're going to die, whether they're making their coffins
01:06 or whether they're volunteering, it doesn't matter.
01:09 [Hammering]
01:12 [Silence]
01:18 [Typing]
01:19 [Ding]
01:20 [Silence]
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