Carrie Fisher Was Buried In A Prozac-Shaped Urn
Riccardo Ghilardi/Wikimedia CommonsCarrie Fisher’s unusual funeral reflected her witty sense of humor.
Carrie Fisher is known in equal parts for her role as Princess Leia in the Star Wars franchise and for her cunning wit and humor. That sense of humor didn’t die with her in 2016, though.
As Vanity Fair reported at the time, when Fisher was buried alongside her mother, Debbie Reynolds, in January 2017, she was buried in a large Prozac pill-shaped urn.
“It was a porcelain antique Prozac pill from the ’50s that was one of Carrie’s prized possessions,” her brother Todd Fisher said.
Fisher had long been open about her own bipolar disorder and advocated throughout her life for mental health awareness. She had also had a morbid sense of humor about her death years before it came.
In her 2008 memoir Wishful Drinking, she wrote about how George Lucas instructed her not to wear a bra when playing Princess Leia “because there’s no underwear in space.” She mused:
“What happens is you go to space and you become weightless. So far so good, right? But then your body expands??? But your bra doesn’t—so you get strangled by your own bra. Now I think that this would make for a fantastic obit—so I tell my younger friends that no matter how I go, I want it reported that I drowned in moonlight, strangled by my own bra.”
The sight of her brother carrying her ashes in that Prozac-shaped urn likely would have amused the late star. Indeed, speaking to the BBC, Todd said the urn “was where she would want to be.”
Luke Perry Was Buried In An Eco-Friendly Mushroom Suit
Wikimedia CommonsLuke Perry at San Diego Comic Con in 2018.
Luke Perry’s death in 2019 was a shock for anyone who knew him from his roles in Beverly Hills, 90210 or Riverdale. The actor had been just 52 years old when he died after a massive stroke.
Later that year, his daughter Sophie revealed another surprising piece of information about the late actor: He had been buried in an eco-friendly mushroom suit.
As CNN reported, Perry had become something of an environmentalist over the course of his life, and eventually came across a United States company that was working on biodegradable burial garments.
“My dad discovered it, and was more excited by this than I have ever seen him. He was buried in this suit, one of his final wishes. They are truly a beautiful thing for this beautiful planet, and I want to share it with all of you,” Sophie Perry wrote in an Instagram post.
The company that designed Perry’s suit was Coeio, who explained that its Infinity Burial Suit has a built-in “biomix” made up of mushrooms and microorganisms that work to decompose the body, “neutralize toxins,” and help surrounding plant life get nutrients from the body.
Luke Perry is possibly the most famous person to be buried in such a way, but he is far from the only person to do so. Mushroom suits are a fairly inexpensive burial method, especially compared to coffins, and are only becoming more widely available.
