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Shea Gunther

The bike hearse makes dying greener

A funeral home in Eugene, Oregon goes the extra green mile by offering their customers the option of a bike hearse.

Tue, Oct 13 2009 at 10:31 AM EST
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Photo: Sunset Hills
When I die, I don't want my burial to be one last polluting pimp slap at the environment. I'm not too keen on the idea of having my body pumped full of embalming fluid and then put in a polyester and enameled wooden box for all of eternity. I want to left to decay naturally, wrapped in a cotton wrap and put into the ground in a nice and simple wicker coffin in a natural cemetery like Sunset Hills in Eugene, Oregon. They offer green burials that skip the chemical preservatives and use fabric shrouds or biodegradable caskets made from natural materials. You can be buried at Sunset Hills in the more traditional "lots of bodies in a field" cemetery or choose a more natural setting in a wooded area of on their land.
 
And to top it all off, they'll even transport your coffin from the funeral home to your grave site with a bike hearse.
 
Now that is green and classy.
 
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Bandjammer 09/04/2011 21:51 PM

This is the stupidest thing that I've seen in a long time.

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Patty 09/04/2011 15:10 PM

I like the horse-drawn hearses in some "New Orleans" (though I've only ever seen them in St. Louis?) funerals...

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Gwen Payne 09/04/2011 10:33 AM

I love this idea. I have never understood the purpose behind the chemicals and very expensive coffins to preserve someone who is dead. Wicker is the way to go AND the bike...awesome!

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Carrie 09/04/2011 11:13 AM

I think undertakers along with money changers (bankers are probably two of the oldest & dirtiest professions. At least prostitution makes honest money.

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kakins 08/30/2011 16:26 PM

Yes! This is exactly what I've been looking for! I've always said I wanted a naturally decomposing burial of some sort and the basket coffin is the perfect solution -- even better than a simple pine box. Brilliant! I wonder where we can get the coffins? Kinda morbid, I guess, but we all go sooner or later! (Hopefully later!!!)

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George 10/14/2009 09:44 AM

What wooded area in that cemetery. I know that cemetery and there is no area of woods in which you could bury people that I know of.

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sgunther 10/14/2009 10:02 AM

Sorry, my bad. I assumed, after reading their website, that the natural plots they offer were wooded. I fixed the story.

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