28
Nov
Going green when it’s your time to go
From biodegradable coffins to tree-sprouting urns, eco-friendly burials offer a way for those who live green to also die green.
28
Nov
Going green when it’s your time to go
From biodegradable coffins to tree-sprouting urns, eco-friendly burials offer a way for those who live green to also die green.
12
Oct
Innovation blazes new paths to the afterlife
Holy Smoke offers a unique service: stuffing cremation ashes into pistol bullets or shotgun cartridges.
Says the creator: “I want my ashes put into some turkey-load shotgun shells and have someone that knows how to turkey hunt use the shotgun shells with my ashes to shoot a turkey. That way I will rest in peace knowing that the last thing that one turkey will see is me, screaming at him at about 900 feet per second.”
11
Oct
Florida funeral home offers eco-friendly cremations
The Anderson-McQueen Funeral Home is the first to perform a commercial ‘bio-cremation,’ using a chemical reaction instead of fire to dissolve cadavers.
09
Sep
8 weird burial alternatives that are going mainstream
Options range from mummification to space burials to being dipped in liquid nitrogen.
