(Agencies)
Updated: 2008-01-31 16:44

An undertaker shows a coffin crafted like a Coca-Cola bottle in his showroom near Accra, Ghana, Jan. 27. [Xinhua]

A business workshop making various shapes of coffins was found near Accra, Ghana, media reported Thursday.

Paa Joe Works designs for and provides its customers the coffin shape according to their orders. It could be the shape of an aeroplane, lion, cucumber, tomato, lobster, shoe, snake, a World War Two gun, a white Mercedes Benz, or a Coke bottle. Whatever, the shape may reflect what the person has done in their life.

"The lobster could be for a fisherman, the cucumber for a grocer, the aeroplane for someone who has worked in the airline industry, or perhaps who used to fly a lot for his job," said manager Emmanuel Doku.

The most unusual design it once made was the womb of a woman, ordered by a German doctor in 1992, according to Doku.

The manager said the weird idea hit him when a man called Ataa Owuo decided to put her grandmother in an airplane to take her to heaven because the old lady had never traveled before.

The workshop has orders all over the world.