After an enterprising life, one resilient Colorado casket can finally rest in peace.

The sturdy wood vessel lined with a silky white interior originated as a traditional mortuary viewing casket before a midlife career change took it to the stage. The fame and theatrics were followed by years of repose in a basement before the casket was put up for sale this month on Facebook Marketplace.

Now the casket is carrying out its twilight years as a prop in the back of a Greeley man’s recreational hearse.

Once a cushioned conduit to the other side, the casket now bursts with the wisdom of a life lived outside the box.

That journey began in 2013, when William Haltom produced a stage play in Denver of queer cult-classic “Sordid Lives.” He found himself in need of a casket for the production, whi

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