Go Away, Sarah! Plus, Ecoffins, For When That Time Comes.

Would someone please utilize a majorly huge hook and remove the amazingly self-absorbed Sarah Palin and her massive ego from the "front pages" of the Internets ? Thank you.

Now we can turn our attention to eco-friendly coffins, a topic on which we all can agree. Seems it is now possible to encase your loved ones or even, looking ahead, oneself , in a degradable coffin handmade from bamboo and/or banana sheaves. Both plants, of course, feed people, and both have multiple uses in construction, with bamboo by far the stronger and more versatile.

The company is Ecoffins and its website oozes eco-appropriate/natural/ sensitivity. Mind you, I became bogged down on the difference between a casket and a coffin, because apparently the company sells Indonesian-made  banana-sheave caskets and also bamboo coffins.  Some sources indicate that "casket" was a euphemism for "coffin," but others insist a "coffin" is wide at the shoulders while a "casket" is just a long box.

Whatever.

Each of these clever containers will degrade in from 6 months to two years, along with the remains, which is as it should be, given the "dust to dust, ashes to ashes" thing, right? The UK website is here.

Someday soon I suppose funerals will have "themes," and one will hire a funeral planner to throw, say a tropical homage to Uncle Al, complete with rum drinks,  roast pig, and a festive yet respectful banana-festooned banana coffin, maybe with a mini Carmen Miranda figure woven into the, uh, rigging.

( Banana leaf and hyacinth coffin in photo is by yet another vendor, Daisy Coffins, in the UK. http://www.daisycoffins.com/talk-to-us.html)

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[bamboo]

waa. i am working in bamboo product industry for years, it's really smart and creative idea of using bamboo in such way!!!!!!!!excellent i must say!