A funeral home in El Salvador has taken Barbie mania to an extreme, offering pink coffins with Barbie linings.
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador - A funeral home in El Salvador has takenBarbieThe pink metal coffins are on sale at the Alpha and Omega Funeral Home in the city of Ahuachapan, near the border with Guatemala.
Owner Isaac Villegas said Friday he had already offered the option of pink coffins before the July premiere of themovie. But the craze that swept Latin America convinced him to decorate the cloth linings of the coffins with pictures of the doll. The coffins are also decorated with little white stars.
“I said, `We have to jump on this trend,”' Villegas said of the coffins, noting “it has been a success.”boxes, and has sold 10 of them. Though that doesn't mean 10 people have actually been buried in them - many people in El Salvador buy a pre-paid package for future burial. Villegas said that until a year ago, families had preferred traditional coffins in colors like brown, black, white or gray. But a year ago, he sold his first pink coffin to family who wanted their very happy relative buried in a happier-colored coffin.“We are going to have more pink coffins, because people are asking for it,” he said.
And in Mexico, a sister of one of Mexico's 112,000 missing people began sewing doll outfits to make a “Searching Mother”, referring to the volunteers who fan out across Mexico's dusty plains to search for gravesites that might contain their children's remains. Her creator, volunteer searcher Delia Quiroa, hopes to publicize the plight of mothers who have to carry out the searches and investigations police won't do.
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