With growing interest in green burial, biodegradable caskets and coffins are gaining in popularity.
Bamboo, wicker, seagrass, and willow offer a range of eco-friendly casket and coffin options. You can see a range of green choices from Passages International at this page.
The Six-Point Bamboo Coffin
Passages International’s Six-Point Bamboo Coffin is a natural, biodegradable burial or cremation option that features a fully lined, natural unbleached cotton interior and matching pillow. The Six-Point Bamboo Coffin is suitable for identification, viewing and services followed by cremation or burial.
When buried directly in the earth (without a liner or burial vault) this coffin will break down naturally over time. Because it does not use metal or toxic components, the Bamboo Coffin is also suitable as a cremation container.
Passages offers a viewing lid for the Six-Point Bamboo Coffin lid that allows for an open-coffin viewing or service. Once the service has concluded, a funeral director would replace the full lid prior to the cremation or burial and secure the closures.
Some Assembly Required
If you buy this coffin from a funeral home that carries Passages International products, the funeral home will put the coffin together for you. If you are curious about how this Six-Point Bamboo Coffin goes together, here’s a video showing just how easy it is. The action has been speeded up so that you can see an assembly process that took 25 minutes condensed to less than five minutes.
The video was recorded by Gail Rubin, CT, The Doyenne of Death®, at the 2019 Frozen Dead Guy Days Festival in Nederland, Colorado.
The animals in the background comprise a sculpture called the Council of Kindness. It offers a silent sanctuary for visitors to meditate and heal in the company of life-sized animal and bird sculptures.
This location was the setting for showings of the comedic documentary “Grandpa’s in the TUFF Shed” and playing The Newly-Dead Game®. Gail Rubin has been presenting at Frozen Dead Guy Days almost every year since 2011.