How To Organise Eco Friendly Funerals

How to organize an eco friendly funeral. Eco friendly funerals are becoming more and more popular. What should we look for when we're arranging an eco funeral? The first thing is to have an eco coffin.

This can be anything from a cardboard simple coffin to possibly a bamboo or wicker coffin. What we need to know first is that whatever material the coffin's made from is sustainable, which, to be fair, most coffin manufacturers do now use sustainable wood and sustainable cardboard. The deceased would not be able to be embalmed and normally, will be dressed in a simple shroud.

The place of rest, i.e. the crematorium, should be local as with the woodland burial site if it's to be a burial.

There are dozens of woodland burial sites across the country now. Generally, there are simple fields that don't allow any memorialisation at all. Usually, the burial place is just marked with a simple stone or a plaque.

Most woodland burial cemeteries would plant a tree for every burial that takes place. This is a great way to add in to the eco friendly funeral theme. There may be a small cost involved but then when the tree's growing, you can be sure that your funeral really has been eco friendly.

Your funeral director would advise you on what you're not meant to do if you want your funeral to be an eco funeral. Things such as using metal in the coffin, dressing of the deceased in non-manmade fibers, sawdust, placing mementos in the coffin, all of these should not be done if you're planning your funeral to be an eco funeral. So, that's how to organize an eco friendly funeral. .