Clearly, it's best to be buried in a pineapple...

In Ghana, the Ga tribe have put a spin on traditional inhumation.  They love to celebrate their dead by burying them in custom-designed coffins specifically representing an aspect of that individual's life.  Coffins are diverse and colourful and can be "a car if they were a driver, a fish if their livelihood was the sea -- or a sewing machine for a seamstress. They might also symbolize a vice -- such as a bottle of beer or a cigarette" (http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/photo.day.php?ID=52081).

The Ga believe that the dead go into an afterlife and the coffin acts as a sort of house so they must be living in style!

http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/photo.day.php?ID=52081&VOLGNR=5

Above is a pineapple coffin!  Winners of coffin design competitions can earn between 5 and 6 million Cedis (or 500-600 US dollars).

It appears that these coffins are made out of wood, so the coffins unfortunately would not preserve in the archaeological record.  If the Ga could find a bog to throw the coffin into then it could preserve but I'm not sure if coastal Ghana has that kind of climate!