Dying to get into the green-coffin business It’s a tough marketing challenge, since you can’t rely on any individual’s repeat business to sustain a customer base. But a wire-service story suggests there’s a “potentially huge” market for biodegradable coffins as part of a broader trend toward “natural” burials, which avoid formaldehyde embalming and other planet-hostile practices. The story notes that cremation used to be viewed as the eco-friendly way of disposing of oneself but has fallen out of environmentalist favor due to its use of fossil fuels. No doubt ad agencies will come up with catchy slogans to tout competing brands of biodegradable coffins. —Posted by Mark Dolliver

January 9, 2008 in Dolliver | Permalink

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I genuinely want a biodegradable coffin when the time comes. I prefer to think of my body quickly returning to the earth, instead of being sealed in a metal-and-stone container, waiting aeons for the complete annhilation of the entire planet before my atoms are back in circulation. Unfortunately, I'm pretty sure that health law and burial rules for any Catholic cemetery won't allow it.

Posted by: catsav | Jan 9, 2008 2:37:53 PM

Who wants to bet that we'll see this at the next Inhabitat Convention?

Posted by: mortarstephanie | Jan 9, 2008 9:07:51 PM

There's no freaking huge market. I'm willing to bet that 96% of the people still want their traditional funerals, with viewings and everything. Only the greens in California are into that whole environment thing. Now they want to get people to stop drinking bottle water. These people are crazy.

Personally, I like the Indian style of funerals, being burned in a pyre in front of everyone. Or the Tibetan style where they cut your body into little pieces and throw it to carrion birds.

And by the way, Catsav, there's nothing illegal about biodegradable funerals, if you own the funeral plot, they can bury you any way you like.

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