Maximum Efficiency– Cardboard Coffins
By M Nassal, Stress free Productivity.blog
Ashes to ashes, dust to dust– this is a little difficult when the body is laid to rest in a hermetically sealed box. For as long as I can remember the most popular coffins have been those that will outlast the pyramids. Now a company called Natural Burial Company is trying to shift this paradigm.
They manufacture biodegradable cardboard coffins. Now that’s efficiency. Planting bodies in the ground soaked in preservatives and sealed like maraschino cherries seems crazy to me. Why put folks in the ground if the goal is preserve them for eternity? After all, a memorial does not require that the body still reside below.
Some 2.5 million people died in the US during 2005; that’s a lot of square footage going to waste. It also represents a staggering amount of money between the cost of the burial plot, embalming, and an everlasting coffin. Sign me up for the $500 cardboard coffin and a fist full of flower seeds.
If this sounds as interesting to you as it did me check out a recent article in The NY Times.
Summarized extract from The New York Times by April Dembosky
Biodegradable Coffins
This July, when Jorgi Wu was laid to rest in central California, she became the first American to be buried in an Ecopod — a 100 percent biodegradable coffin made of recycled paper. The seedpod-shaped coffin is designed to be planted in the ground, dissolve and replenish the earth with its nutrient-rich contents. Who needs embalming, cement vaults or herbicide-based lawn care?