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Eco-Funerals Now Feature World’s First ‘Living Coffin’ Made Out of Mushrooms

Ghoti Ichthus

Genesis 18:32, 2 Chronicles 7:14, Acts 5:29

Eco-Funerals Now Feature World’s First ‘Living Coffin’ Made Out of Mushrooms​

By Good News Network
Feb 15, 2025

"In the UK, a funeral company says they can now bury you in the ‘world’s first living coffin’, which is made out of mushrooms.
Containing no wood, the coffins are formed out of a mat of fibers including pliable mycelium—the root structure of mushrooms—and up-cycled hemp plants.
The thread-like mycelium, aids decomposition by breaking down biological matter—and it biodegrades within 45 days.
Made by Dutch company Loop Biotech, the coffins can be grown in just a week and the eco-friendly burials “feed the earth” as they mix with nutrients from the human decomposition."

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That's interesting. My written instructions are to manage my after life in the most economical way possible. Go with whatever is the least costly. A plain pine box or simple urn is good enough for me. I wonder how much these mushroom cacoons cost.
 
That's interesting. My written instructions are to manage my after life in the most economical way possible. Go with whatever is the least costly. A plain pine box or simple urn is good enough for me. I wonder how much these mushroom cacoons cost.

About $1500 for the Living Cocoon
About $300 for the EarthRise (urn)
Of course, there are accessories :lol:

Cheaper than all of the coffins they had at two different funeral homes here, excluding the Orthodox Jewish unadorned pine box (which you can't get unless you're a member of the congregation that owns those boxes).

Of course, since made in the Netherlands, there'd be [expensive] shipping. Unless they start making them here, too.

Maybe @Kaatje can tell us more that what's on the Loop Biotech website Loop Biotech - Let's enrich nature
 
Are we getting near the ultimate in green lunacy yet?

My theory is that it will collapse on itself after the movement expresses peak pride.

Maybe I’m uninformed, but it’s my understanding that human bodies are filled with chemicals for burial?

Some places require embalming, others don't.

Here, embalming is optional, depending on what will be done with the body and how long it will be out of refrigeration (viewing, wake, funeral, etc.).
But at the cemetery where Mom and Dad were buried, the vault/equivalent to keep the grave from collapsing wasn't optional.
 
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