Good for the environment to the bitter end

Apparently these Australian designed coffins by Life Art are big in Hong Kong and in due time we hope these concerns will extend to other parts of the world including those over populated regions.

Another solution has been offered by Bios

Unlike Karim Rashid the solution offered by both organisations is to quietly allow the deceased to blend into the environment in the true sense of the word whereas Karim’s solution allows you to preserve yourself and ’stand out’ for the lifetime of the pod. We are talking 600 -700 years. Not much of a solution.

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Design your self by Karim Rashid

Well it has arrived – the design your world publication according to Karim Rashid.

Well known now for Kit 24 displayed at the Toronto Furniture Fair, a range of iconic blobs (I don't believe he is the only one), an array of symbols that he has symbolically tattooed onto his body at significant times and places and now the design of a plastic sealed coffin that will preserve and mummify your body for 600 -700 years. It may not be everyone's idea of the perfect way to go – there are many other ecologically friendly methods of burial and disposal.

Nice exit

Bios – a funeral urn – is made of vegetable fiber and cellulose containing the seed of a tree. When the urn is planted the seed germinates  – cemeteries become forests.

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