The urn comes with a baseball that mourners at the funeral can sign.
According to the article,
This is only the tip of the iceberg – surely there will be football logos, basketball logos. The article mentions Star Trek, which I would have predicted (“Now! You can go to your eternal rest in a Spock Photon Torpedo Casket!”). But the Vatican Library???
What – to steal an advertising line from the 1980s – do you want on YOUR Tombstone?
The football stadium of Athletic Club de Bilbao, San Mamés, is named after a saint; therefore it’s known as The Cathedral. They’re now building a new stadium which will also be called San Mamés: Bilbaínos are traditionalists and they want to go on calling the footie stadium the Cathedral.
Last week on the news:
City Hall has denied the permits necessary to have a space under the partial ceiling (the grassy area itself doesn’t get a ceiling but the seats do) where funerary urns of club members could be stored. Apparently the Cathedral theme is only allowed to go so far.