http://www.metafilter.com/tags/oddcasketsorcoffins Posts tagged with 'oddcasketsorcoffins' at MetaFilter. Wed, 14 May 2008 16:25:18 -0800 Wed, 14 May 2008 16:25:18 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/71662/Dust%2Dto%2DDust <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikPqLOe69K4">Buried in a beer can.</a> As an appealing bonus, the coffin doubles as a beer cooler before it's needed for the stiff. With baby boomers getting ready to pop their clogs, many are looking to alternative ways to <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/science/12/26/green.coffin.ap/index.html">recycle</a> their remains. A book and radio interview on <a href="http://www.gravematters.us/index.html">green burials</a> and some <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_burial">interesting figures</a> on the quantities of wood, steel, copper, bronze and embalming fluid buried each year in the US in conventional funerals. tag:metafilter.com,2008:site.71662 Wed, 14 May 2008 16:25:18 -0800 burials green oddcasketsorcoffins binturong