Coffins Made of Newspaper, Cardboard -- Even Banana Posted: 5 months ago by Bingo
Casket makers catering to natural burials have offered biodegradable coffins made of such materials as recycled newspapers or cardboard. One American company is selling caskets made of banana sheaves. (theme pic is a pineapple leaf coffin)
They take six months to two years to biodegrade.
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Posted: 5 months ago by greenfourth:
The only real point of caskets is so that the body doesn't get eaten by everything in the ground. Why bother spending money on something that's just going to biodegrade in a few months to a year and just toss them into the hole sans casket?
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Posted: 5 months ago by Bingo:
« greenfourth : The only real point of caskets is so that the body doesn't get eaten by everything in the ground. Why bother spending money on something that's just going to biodegrade in a few months to a year and just toss them into the hole sans casket? Wrong.
The reason for casket is mostly for the living, for the handling of the body and the service. You want the body to degrade into the earth.
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Posted: 5 months ago by greenfourth:
« Bingo:Wrong.
The reason for casket is mostly for the living, for the handling of the body and the service. You want the body to degrade into the earth. If everyone wanted their loved ones to degrade then funeral homes wouldn't do such things as embalming and caskets with gaskets that supposedly protect the body from degradation. (Though it really just causes the body to liquefy instead of just getting picked clean...)
Now, if you mean we should want the bodies to degrade then I agree. I personally want, like, a tree planted on top of me. (like in The Fountain) Have it protected by a will or something for a few decades then have it cut down and made into a desk. A haunted desk!
Wait, what? >_>
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