The coffin that this Thursday unceremoniously was put out on the street in the center, provoked a lot of reaction in the neighbourhood. From ‘a misplaced joke’ to ‘the funeral may have been too expensive’. But the owner has been found: 25-year-old Jacky lived in the living group on the Keerwal in the center and the coffin was eventually used as a bed: “It makes me angry that my former roommates threw the coffin on the street, I had I’d rather have it back.”
Jacky was in a goth phase when he bought the box: “It didn’t become that goth in the end, but you have to try everything, right?” When he was bored, Jacky searched Marktplaats for whatever was for sale: “I saw this box, asked a buddy of mine if he could come with me to Friesland and we left. I was allowed to take the box for 150 euros and I made my bed.”
It was not possible to sleep in it right away: “It has stood upright in my room for a long time, because it is a special size that not all mattresses can fit.” When that mattress was finally obtained, Jacky could finally sleep in it: “I also slept in it with the two of us. It was very comfortable, it was nice and dark when it was closed.”
Bulky waste
When Jacky moved out, all the housemates wanted to keep him. “Yes, they were very enthusiastic. I did say that I wanted it back when they were done with it.” So they were done with it, but Jacky was never called. “It was a really big shock when I saw it on AT5.”
“It’s just treated like bulky waste. It’s something very personal, it was my bed and it hurts.” Jacky has now been able to give it a place: “I would have loved to have it back, but not now that it has been in the rain for so long.” The current bed is not that special, “but I never want a bed from Ikea, I don’t like that material.”