This Awesome Urn Will Turn You into a Tree After You Die... You don't find many designers working in the funeral business thinking about more creative ways for you to leave this world (and maybe they should be). However, the product designer Gerard Moline has combined the romantic notion of life after death with an eco solution to the dirty business of the actual, you know, transition. His Bios Urn is a biodegradable urn made from coconut shell, compacted peat and cellulose and inside it Continue reading
Six Feet Greener…
The grounds at Hinton Park in Dorset make a pretty spot for a picnic. Patches of bluebells spread out under trees; streams and pathways wind through the woodland. But unlike one of the national parks it resembles, Hinton Park has some 6,000 people buried there. It is one of over 260 eco-friendly burial sites in Britain. The ways that Britons choose to have their bodies disposed of after death are changing markedly. In 1960 only 35% of all funerals involved cremation; now 74% of them do, Continue reading
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