Leopard skin draped coffin!

Reusable crates Ana?

Funereal tumbrels, perhaps?

Oh, I dunno.....

Yes, but if there was some sort of service beforehand, how would that work? Even if not, you couldn't in all decency just turn up at the graveside and just lob the body in...

You can be buried in just a shroud in the UK -even greener than cardboard.

(Cremation-friendly, of course - might have to be a big paper bag...)

Bin-bag for me!

Is no one else on here not in the least bit interested in what kind of a box they get put in, or what subsequently is done with said box?

Jolly little souls aren't you?

Just keep breathing in and out.

The cheapest is £365 and I don't know how much delivery would cost.
I wonder what darling daughter's reaction would be if I got one and stored it at home?
Do you think in the conservatory, or standing up in the dining room in the opposite corner to the long case clock?
I suppose it could stand in the kitchen with temporary shelves to hold saucepans a?

It's possible to buy Fairtrade coffins, I think they are made from bamboo and willow.

I originally thought cardboard for myself, although I did hear a worrying story about a green funeral that had to be rushed in case the cardboard wouldnt stand a heavy rainstorm, good to think that the unavoidable purchase of a coffin could help someone trying to make a living in a poorer part of the world.

Many of you will know i'v recently been to a funeral. It was very traditional. The journey following the hearse R.C service, hymms, readings, followed by the interment. A wake late into the night. It made me change my opnion. I'd always said I didn't care what they did with my body. I now think funerals are for the 'living' not the dead. My uncles grandchildren carried his coffin. That was moving in itself but when I spoke to them one of them told me that he felt very much better now because he'd done one last thing to help his grandad on his last journey. He hadn't wanted to do it initially but was glad he did. Another one told me that it was actually lowing his granddad into the grave that made him except he'd gone and this was his last goodbye. He couldn't believe his feelings because he expected to be beside himself, when in fact it had been a great comfort. Myself and his widow have been to visit the grave a few times. We talk to him, we talk about him when we are there. I think we will find that comforting. So I best start saving for my own. But more importantly I better think what would comfort my family the most. I'll probably ask their opnion. They'll poo poo the conversation at first but I know they will give me a proper answer then I can take it from there. I'd quite like balloons at my funeral though rather than flowers. Rambling again sorry it's all still a bit raw. But the rambling here helps in some way. Thanks.

Maniac We did the same a few years ago OH is determined that no one will profit from our demise,after The University has had the use the ashes will be placed in our family grave all at minimal cost,so easy to arrange and puts your mind at rest for the future.

Maniac A friend of mine who has had many episodes of serious psychotic illness since her late teens has signed up to donate her brain to medical science when she no longer needs it.

I'm leaving my body to whoever wants it. They all know not to spend a penny more than they have too. lol

I work in a plant nursery and amongst all the weird and wonderfull items my Boss has around the place is a Coffin,every so often I have the urge to see if I fit in it,have resisted temptation so far !!!

Read somewhere that you can't have cremation with a cardboard
coffin -also that most wicker coffins are now imported from China.
I've just received the information package from Bristol Uni re donating my body for research.
My family can do whatever they like (or nothing) to mark my passing.

I think a wicker coffin could make a good decorative feature, if you have enough space in your conservatory.

Cardboard, cremated, and ashes scattered in Lyme bay

I want a wicker coffin too. I've written down everything I want, from dying to the Rondo from Beethoven's Violin Concerto to burial among my ancestors, and I've threatened to come back to haunt them if they don't do it right.
The WI does residential courses where you can weave your own coffin, but where would you store it? Propped up in the chimney corner?

That's what I want anno minus the last post!!

A cardboard coffin and a woodland burial. I want my nephew to play the Last Post on his trumpet, though I haven't told him that yet.

I don't mind what sort of coffin they use as I want to be cremated and my ashes scattered on flowing water. I went to a woodland burial once and the gentleman had a cardboard coffin which biodegrades at about the same rate as the body. We made our wills ages ago too, and we're still alive and kicking.

In my experience, wicker coffins cost less and there was no creaking.

anno and kitty maybe the snow plough has an attachment for gathering up leaves. If so, we could do with it here as we have already started the leaf sweeping and will still be doing it at Christmas.

I believe wicker coffins are more expensive. I was at a funeral where one was and there was a strange creaking noise as it was carried in.
We've just redone our wills, everyone should make a will. Some people seem to be afraid of doing it, as if it will hasten the end. We made ours in 1974, as soon as we owned a house, and we are still around.