“Instead of: ‘we die, we end up in the soil and that’s it,’ Now there is a new story : we can enrich life after death and you can continue to thrive as a new plant or tree,' Hendrikx said in an interview.

So when the urn is broken down, the ashes can help give life to the tree. So I thought, hey, why can we not be part of the cycle of life? And then decided to grow a mushroom-based coffin.” Moss can be draped within the coffins for the burial ceremonies.Īnd for those preferring cremation, there is also an urn they grow which can be buried with a sapling sticking out. And I learned that they are the biggest recyclers on the planet. With climate consciousness and a special care of nature a focal point in ever more lives, Loop Biotech says it has the answer for those wanting to live the full circle of life - and then some - as close to what they always believed in.īob Hendrikx, the 29-year-old founder bedecked in a “I am compost” T-shirt at a recent presentation, said that he had researched nature a great deal “especially mushrooms. investor in the Loop Biotech company that produces the coffins.

And it’s been very old school the same way for 50 or 100 years,” said Shawn Harris, a U.S. But I do think there’s a lot of us, a huge percentage of us, that would like it differently. “We all have different cultures and different ways of wanting to be buried in the world.

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