to think this is a rather unfortunate name for an item of furniture

[Mamaz0n]

I give you the The Life end Table

Why on earth did they call it that?

It's an end table and part of the "Life" range I think.

Unfortunate juxtaposition of words

I don't like the colour but it might actually be quite practical sitting next to my death-bed. There's room for an ashtray and a bottle of brandy mineral water and some fruit...

A tablecloth would be even more practical. People are always pulling them off to attract the attention of nurses on television.

Yes it is part of a wider "life" range. which itself is an odd name for a series of furnitures. I mean they aren't particularly lively are they?

It is gross how old do you have to be to own one?

It does have a rather "casky" look about it, somehow.

oh that is ugly - and it must be if I say so as I like most of the things on MN that are considered naff

Er no YANBU! What an odd idea. When I read the thread title I thought you were going to tell us about a piece of Ikea furniture called Skum or Bonk or something...

Why Life End? It reminds me of a story I read recently about a rather practical Victorian who hadn't much money but needed a cupboard. He bought a coffin instead. Until the time came when he needed the coffin for its original purpose, he kept it up on end in his room and hung his clothes in it.

my nanna eats her tea of something similar.....if she swallows her false teeth it may well become her life end table.

(my nanna watches tv whilst she eats and the Ronnie/Kat thing is making her forget to chew properly .

Reminds me of those tables they used to 'stretch' people out on....

not good!

As an aside - i heard a very interesting ghost story once about a family who moved into an old farmhouse and the mum kept seeing a body 'hanging' on the back of the door - she assumed it was the ghost of someone who had taken their own life on the back of the door and called the local priest in. Turns out the farmers wife had previously been the local fetcher and stretcher (midwife and undertaker) and had laid numerous dead bodies out on the door after taking it off it's hinges....so the mum in the story could see the dead body as it would have been but vertical...