First we had a shortage of toilet paper, then it was eggs, and now it's hot pink paint. When will the madness end?
With the popularity of the Barbie movie, hot pink is suddenly all the rage.
Check out these hot pink coffins from Ecuadorian funeral home Olivares making the rounds on the internet.
(I know the video says Mexican, but Olivares is in Guayaquil, Ecuador. It's the internet, folks, and everyone who speaks Spanish is Mexican.)
The coffins are being sold with the slogan "So you can rest like a Barbie." Though someone weighed in with a better option satirizing the Aqua song, "Barbie Girl":
"Death in plastic; it's fantastic."
If you're hoping to pick one of these up because you're near death or just particularly morbid, Funeral director Isaac Villegas says "too bad"; they've already run out of stock.
And with the shortage of hot pink paint, who knows when the Barbie coffins will be back on the market.
However, if you need a novelty coffin in a more timely fashion, and let's hope you don't, but if you do, here are some other choices you might consider:
The Super Nintendo Coffin:
The iPhone Coffin:
The Shark Coffin:
The Corn Coffin:
The Photon Torpedo Coffin:
The Crime Scene Coffin:
And my personal favorite (because it's functional in the here and now):
A bookshelf that converts to a coffin.