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Biodegradable coffins
Interest in eco-friendly funerals and green burials has been increasing in recent years, and today there are many different biodegradable coffins on the market. These final resting places are made from a variety of materials, including paper, formaldehyde-free plywood, fair trade-certified bamboo and hand-woven willow. Ecoffins offers several woven and fair trade coffins, and Ecopod is known for its innovative designs, which are made from recycled newspapers and come in a variety of colors and designs.
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I'm only moderately green, but I'm definitely convinced that the state of mortuary sciences has to change. We need to stop valuing a well-preserved body over a healthy ecosystem.
If you want to be really green, look up "Tibetian air burial"... truly getting back to the land, even moreso than cremation. But can you get that here? nooooo... Also, if you're being put in a coffin, even if the coffin is biodegradeable chances are *you* have been preserved with formaldehyde.
what is it ? too bad i never going to use it lol im a inmmortal lol lol i been saving coffins for so many many years!! that is going green people saving coffins lol im a green man im green
Jews have been using "biodegradable" coffins for centuries! Simple pine box, simple pine fasteners (there are no metal fastenings or nails), simple cotton lining, non-embalmed body. Glad to see gentiles are finally catching on, after these some 1,000 years.
When you count up all the millions of tons of organic matter that is being kept in sealed stainless steel coffins and then placed in a sealed concrete vaults, you can understand what the human race has done to bleed the planet. Put all that stored energy that is a human body back into use and let it decay as intended. "ashes to ashes-dust to dust"??
Cremation is the better way to go and it's probably a lot cheaper.
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