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Bill Bramanti poses with a coffin he had specially made designed to look like a can of his favorite beer. For now, he's using it as a cooler.
(Photo by Mary Compton, Southtown Star)


05/05/2008 -- SOUTH CHICAGO HEIGHTS, Ill. (AP) -- Glenwood, Illinois, village administrator Bill Bramanti's favorite beer is Pabst Blue Ribbon.

He loves it.

So he's he's had his coffin specially made, and it's designed to look like a can of the brew.

Bramanti isn't sick, so he doesn't plan on needing the coffin just yet.

For now the 67-year-old man says he'll use the coffin -- as a cooler.

Bramanti threw a party Saturday for friends, featuring his coffin filled with ice and, what else, Pabst Blue Ribbon.

Pabst is headquartered in San Antonio.

Bramanti ordered the casket from Panozzo Brothers Funeral Home in Chicago Heights.

Scott Sign of Chicago Heights designed the beer can. The silver coffin is red, white and blue -- just like a Pabst can.