Man wants to be buried in giant whiskey bottle

Anto Wickham with his whiskey bottle coffin           Photo:svet24.si

Anto Wickham, a 48-year-old, has spent $50,000 (Sh4.3m) on a 10-foot casket shaped like a bottle of Jack Daniels whiskey. After witnessing the death of eight Army pals during the Iraq war, he began to plan his own funeral – he decided he wants it to be a celebration, rather than mourning.

Wickham says he doesn't want a normal funeral, it has to be a celebration of life because he had been to 'too many funerals of colleagues where they were very sad occasions'. So the father-of-six decided to go for something completely different.