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Bury Me Inside the Gucci Store

January 08, 2026 • Christine & Jacoby • Episode 57

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Happy New Year!! The Venn Dialogues is back! Hoping to give you all a new year of amazing new learnings and laughs. We are so excited for this year and all we have planned for our listeners. Share an episode with a friend and buckle up for an amazing episode about coffins, caskets, burial practices and - you guessed it - their environmental implications.

Today, we talk coffins, caskets and burial practices. This episode takes a wild ride with an intriguing and surprising history of coffins/caskets to an exploration of some of the modern impacts of burial practices that are influencing the advancements in the funeral industry.

Come for the learning and stay for the laughs.

Sources:

https://www.overnightcaskets.com/blog/the-evolution-of-funeral-caskets-and-coffins-through-the-years/

https://www.zdcasketfactory.com/blog/how-do-coffins-vary-in-different-regions-of-the-world-1627.html

https://www.funeralbasics.org/what-is-embalming/

https://inspireculture.org/cultural-awareness/arts-culture/burial-customs-around-the-world-culture-memory-and-meaning/

https://earthfuneral.com/reports/the-environmental-impact-of-funeral-choices

https://www.jstor.org/stable/48746964?read-now=1&seq=4#page_scan_tab_contents

Challenge:

Think about how you would like to celebrate the end of your time here on earth.

Quote:

Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt - William Shakespeare

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