Bios-urn

A new and highly innovative product from Martin Azua offers a green twist to cremation.

Despite the increasing popularity of green funerals, cremation is still the primary route for disposal of teh dead. But Azua has been thinking outside the box, and offers the Bios-Urn, a simple biodegradable mortuary urn container charged with biodegradable materials: coconut shell, compacted peat and cellulose. Inside, it contains the seed of a tree that can be changed to a seed more suitable for the soil and environmental conditions where the urn is to be planted. Add cremains and, Hey Presto, a tree to commemorate the dear departed!

I cannot see a great market in the UK, but this Bios-urn might be particularly attractive to pet owners. I’ve always been amased at the interest in dedicated pet cremations and those who take advantage of those services may well think about a memorial for Fido.

After all those years of the dog cocking its leg against a tree, the tree bites back!

 

Martin Azua: bios-urn.

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