Leatherhead Matters

You can now leave your mortal coil and not even leave a carbon foot print when you are buried or, cremated (or, at least only a teensy weensy one).

A British company called Ecoffins is importing environmentally friendly, burial & cremation products from China, such as hand woven urns, and pandanus (wild pineapple) coffins. And yes, they have helpfully done the calculation on CO2 emissions for the journey from China & it’s only equivalent (for one burial casket) to the fuel consumed on your journey to the church or, crematorium! How thoughtful. It certainly does away with all those brass fittings.

I am just a little bit concerned though about whether the products are fit for purpose. There is no mention on the site about any sort of inner lining to their products (aplogies but, it’s the engineer in me that worries about these things!). Now this may appear to be nit-picking but, is it intended that, in this green approach to burial & cremation, the mortal remains leak out through the whicker work or, gently waft your ashes into the environment.

So next time you are wandering through the bluebell woods you may come across an Ecoffin product. This could set a whole new fashion for burial above ground like the American Indian.