This funeral business is also moving toward "green" alternatives...no embalming and fiber clothing for a burial...cardboard or wicker coffins biodegrade faster than wood according to the article here....BD
(AP) -- It's no longer enough to live a greener life - now people are being encouraged to be environmentally friendly when they leave the Earth too. Cardboard coffins, clothes sewn from natural fibers, a burial
plot in a natural setting. Green funerals attempt to be eco-friendly at every stage.
Cardboard coffins - which are as thick as their wooden counterparts - can be decorated by family and biodegrade within three months. In a green funeral, bodies are not embalmed and are dressed in pure fiber clothes.
"People are trying to think about what's the best way to live and with that, what's the best way to die," said Roslyn Cassidy, a funeral director for Green Endings, which provides eco-friendly funerals.
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