Next time you're having a cardiac arrest after your last two weeks' work is deleted by a computer bug you can be comforted by the thought that if you are indeed going to kick the bucket, you can now purchase a luxury coffin suited to that final journey with the click of a button.

Buyandsell.net, the Irish auction website, is auctioning a luxury Sandhurst casket imported from Italy with bids beginning at a reserve price of £1,175 (€1,492).