From a BBC World Service radio broadcast monitored for The Natural Death Centre by Yvonne Malik.
A company in Germany is producing bio-degradable coffins and urns. The coffins are made entirely of flax, shaped rather like an insect cocoon. The urns are made of cork, and they have a sea urn which dissolves in water. For the garden they have urns made of chicken excrement.
Helmut Hilger, Dürener Sargfabrik, Industriestr 18-20, 52459 Inden Pier, Germany (tel 00 49 2428 80712; fax 00 49 2428 80722).
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