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SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador AP 鈥?A funeral home in El Salvador has taken Barbie mania to an extreme, offering pink coffins with Barbie linings.It s all designed so you can be a Barbie fan till the day you die 鈥?and even after that.The pink metal coffins are on sale at the Alpha and Omega Funeral Home in the city of Ahuachap谩n, near the border with Guatemala.Owner Isaac Villegas said Friday he had already offered the option of pink coffins before the July premiere of the Barbie movie. 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 ha
stanley website ve to jump on this trend, Villegas said of the coffins, noting it has been a success. He said the funeral home has already lau
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stanley cup 0 people have actually been buried in them 鈥?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.Now he has no plans to turn back, though he still offers darker colors. We are going to have more pink coffins, because people are asking for it, he said.Latin America jumped on Barbie mania with pink-colored tacos a Smgr Consumer beware: What to know before buying a funeral casket
Public sentiment in Japan has been generally opposed to holding the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics partly based on fears the coronavirus will spike as almost 100,000 people enter for both events.The Japanese medical community is large
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