IKEA founder Ingvar Kamprad passed away on Sunday. I missed it but I guess everyone made a joke about putting the coffin together.
I didn’t find it offensive to his memory, I find it offensive that people couldn’t take the time to come up with a better joke. I really like IKEA furniture (despite wanting to grow up a little, the leap to West Elm or Crate and Barrel isn’t that much better) and I have a bunch in my apartment.
I guess in addition to building a retail empire and becoming a billionaire, he was also an alcoholic with a fascist past. He lived a long, accomplished, and complex life. But he’s the IKEA guy. IKEA coffin. It writes itself.
I’m going to try to anticipate some similarly tacky or offensive headlines for dead celebrities when they’re time comes.
Don’t Stand So Close to Him, Sting, Dead at 87
Oops, She’ll Never Do It Again, Pop Star Britney Spears, Dead at 68
Is There a D? Vanna White _ea_ at 74
“Did I Do That?” Jaleel White’s Cardiologist Responds to Malpractice Claims
Fucking Finally, Keith Richards Dead at 92
