Heartbreaking photos show coffins made to reflect young Texas school shooting victims’ ‘souls’

Heartbreaking images have emerged of some of the personalized coffins hand-made for 19 of those slaughtered by a teen madman in their Texas school.
SoulShine Industries, whose owner previously told The Post about the touching offer to make the coffins for free, show the beautiful designs rush-made in time for the slew of funerals that started Tuesday.
The finished designs reflect the passions of any typical fourth-grader — from baseball to dinosaurs, llamas, butterflies and unicorns as well as beloved scenes from TikTok videos.
“No family should have to bury a child,” company owner Trey Ganem, 50, told NBC-DFW after working around the clock to finish the designs.
“We don’t just paint caskets here; we represent the lives of the people who have passed.”
Ganem met with the families of 19 of the Uvalde victims — 18 children and one of their teachers, Eva Mireles — to come up with the final designs to help “let their soul shine,” he also told NewsNation. Each typically costs at least $3,400.
“They tell me about their loved one, and they tell me special specific things, and they light up when they’re talking to me,” Ganem said.
“We’re creating the last thing that the parents can ever do for their child. And we’re making it with passion and purpose,” he told the outlet of the finished products.
“We put all of our heart and soul into this thing,” Ganem said, saying he felt “blessed” to be able to help at the families’ time of need.
“It’s just very emotional for me. And to see this time and time again, it’s just, I don’t understand it,” he said of mass shootings. “Times are not what they used to be.”
He proudly detailed some of the “unique caskets” they made — including one with a dinosaur holding a flashlight and a pickle, and another with a unicorn head coming out of a llama.
He said families often “giggle” recalling their kids’ wild imaginations in making the quirky designs.
“When the parents are doing something very special for their loved one, and when they get excited, you can take a little bit of their pain and suffering away — this is what it’s about,” he told the local station.
“It’s not just about painting a casket, it’s about helping those families to start their healing process,” he said.
It’s not just the grieving families left behind that Ganem claims to get input from — he previously told The Post how he is a medium who communicates with the dead to work on their designs.
“It’s been a beautiful thing for me to hear all of their stories,” he said. “I feel like I have become a part of their family.”










