Death is like a box of chocolates
Via Gizmodo I found out about a company in the UK that is combining eco-friendly coffins with um...style?
Creative Coffins makes eco-friendly coffins out of wood pulp and such things, and then personalizes them by giving them a printed design of some sort. I don't know exactly how much this helps the environment, since I don't know what goes into the making of a typical coffin. Laws here in the states require you to put said coffin into a big cement box in the ground, so it’s not too helpful afterwards, but maybe it’s different over there.
But I like the idea of the designs. I've heard of personalized funerals before, but not caskets. I’m gathering that Brits are a little more joyous and silly that we Americans about funerals, based on some of these. You can request your own design be made, but some of my favorites are:
The Fur Coffin, complete with cleaning tag
Gone To Seed
Goneaway Golf Balls - with Improved Aerodynamics
The GRAND Finale:
Creative Coffins makes eco-friendly coffins out of wood pulp and such things, and then personalizes them by giving them a printed design of some sort. I don't know exactly how much this helps the environment, since I don't know what goes into the making of a typical coffin. Laws here in the states require you to put said coffin into a big cement box in the ground, so it’s not too helpful afterwards, but maybe it’s different over there.
But I like the idea of the designs. I've heard of personalized funerals before, but not caskets. I’m gathering that Brits are a little more joyous and silly that we Americans about funerals, based on some of these. You can request your own design be made, but some of my favorites are:
The Fur Coffin, complete with cleaning tag
Gone To Seed
Goneaway Golf Balls - with Improved Aerodynamics
The GRAND Finale: