Fancy being buried in a doughnut? Kiwi man makes burial more personal


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Hall holding the red brick urn modelled after the Lego coffin behind him. Photos: Ross Hall/Dying Art/dpa

When Ross Hall started to think about his will over 15 years ago, he had an epiphany. "Suddenly I was absolutely sure that I didn't want to be cremated or buried in a simple brown box. My life has just been too special," the 64-year-old New Zealander says.

Thus was born the idea for Dying Art.

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