PORTLAND, Ore. -- Cynthia Beal wants to be an Oregon cherry tree after she dies. She has everything to make it happen -- a body, a burial site and a biodegradable coffin. "It is composting at its best ...

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Such burials require no formaldehyde embalming, vaults or laminated caskets. Cynthia Beal talks about the Ecopod, a kayak-looking container made out of recycled newspaper from the United Kingdom, at ...

FRANKLIN COUNTY, Pa. — For more than a year, Max Justice has been on a mission to bury the way we’re buried. Deciding to abandon metal caskets, he feels the funeral industry has mush-room to grow, ...

For those seeking to live in the most sustainable way, there now is an afterlife, too. A Dutch intrepid inventor is now “growing” coffins by putting mycelium, the root structure of mushrooms, together ...

From cardboard coffins and natural burials to water-based cremation, Australians are increasingly open to alternative farewells – but the key is to plan ...

DUTCH STARTUP LOOP runs a factory in the city of Delft that’s unlike any other you may have visited. For one thing, as soon as you enter, the scent of mushrooms fills your nostrils like the smell of a ...

The Lougheed and Jackson Barnard funeral homes in Sudbury, Ont., now offer mushroom-grown, biodegradable caskets from a company called Loop Biotech. Jeff Shrigley, the funeral director at Lougheed's, ...

FRANKLIN COUNTY, Pa. — Setas Mushrooms grows hundreds of pounds of mushrooms every week on a farm a few miles outside of Greencastle, Franklin County. Here, Company Chairman Max Justice is making more ...

The timber of invasive alien trees cleared off watersheds and river systems around the country is to be used to make “eco-friendly” coffins, the Working for Water Programme (WWP) said on Monday. “A ...

The most significant factor affecting a coffin's durability is its material. Common materials include wood, metal, and biodegradable substances. Traditional wooden coffins are made from various woods ...