Relaxation in peace.
Farm to Coffin
For the eco-conscious — and thrifty— a Dutch startup has created a mushroom coffin that may biodegrade in lower than two months and prices the equal of simply $1,000.
Dubbed the “Loop Residing Cocoon,” the fungal sarcophagus is constructed from mycelium, the thread-like underground construction of mushrooms, and upcycled hemp fibers, according to the company, Loop Biotech. The corporate grows the coffins, which appear like human-size silkworm cocoons, in simply seven days of their manufacturing unit. In comparison with a conventional wooden casket, which might weigh from 150 to 250 kilos and value many hundreds, the mushroom coffin is mild and ethereal at 66 kilos.
Relying on circumstances, a daily wooden casket will final for many years. However if you’re in a rush to enter nature’s chilly embrace, the mushroom casket will biodegrade in 45 days. The coffin comes with a mattress of moss inside which you may as well swap with a sustainable demise shroud of linen. Relaxation in peace!
Inexperienced Funeral
If even $1,000 sounds steep, the corporate’s additionally promoting a good cheaper mushroom urn to retailer cremated ashes, which the corporate says you possibly can show in your house or bury it within the floor with a plant within the urn’s lid.
“As a substitute of: ‘we die, we find yourself within the soil and that is it,’ now there’s a new story: we will enrich life after demise and you’ll proceed to thrive as a brand new plant or tree,” the corporate’s founder Bob Hendrikx told the Associated Press. “It brings a brand new narrative by which we might be a part of one thing greater than ourselves.”
This is not the first we’ve heard of Loop, or extra broadly the query of modernized, ecologically sound burial options. In actual fact, the mushroom coffins won’t even be hardcore sufficient for advocates of human composting, which has been legalized in several US states over the previous few years, and even liquefying the remains of the deceased.
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