From flat-pack coffins to water cremation: how to have an eco-friendly death
The funeral industry is catering for the growing number of people who want to deal with their mortal remains in an environmentally sound way
The grass may be greener on the other side – but is death?
Growing numbers of people who spend their lives recycling their plastics and watching their air miles are wondering about the most environmentally sound way to deal with their mortal remains. Now, help is at hand from a funeral industry increasingly tuned in to the varied and exotic last wishes of the “consumer”.
At a packed funeral expo in a church in Amsterdam last weekend, exhibitors included a flat-pack coffin that you construct and decorate yourself which has just won the first Dutch “final footprint award” with its designs for a “CO2-neutral” casket.
