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YES! It's burned anyway (I want to be cremated) and I will be dead so what do I need mahogany and silk for? This is a great option. I do not want to burden my family with any unnecessary costs

I’m in. Toss me in the box and toss it in the fire. Add me to some mulch and off I go

Yup, these are becoming pretty popular here. I'm Jewish so I'm just getting put into a simple pine coffin that doesn't even have nails on it so it's environmentally friendly- I'll find out if I can get this instead actually.

They're for natural biodegradable funerals, aren't they?

I've got a bunch of Amazon boxes, some probably nearly this size, in my garage waiting to be recycled... I'm apparently sitting on a mint! :)

Just toss my carcass in the lake.

Overpriced.

My inheritance goes to my progeny with the most ridiculous solution to my ashes.

My father passed away in 2008, here in NZ, our funeral director suggested we buy a cardboard liner. The liner (or cardboard casket) sits inside a more elaborate coffin throughout the ceremony, after which the cardboard box with deceased inside is removed & cremated. It was just one of the many simple suggestions made which bought our costs down allowing us to give Dad the send off he so well deserved. In stark contrast just a week later, north of the city we live, my Mum's brother passed away. We met with the only funeral director in the remote town (who I didn't particularly like) & enquired if we could have a cardboard liner as we'd had for Dad. The funeral director, taking full advantage of the monopoly he held stated it was "disrespectful & disgraceful" to suggest that one might choose to have a cardboard box as opposed to a wooden casket for a loved one! I made it clear to him after the funeral exactly what I thought of him & his greedy narrow minded approach!

Dat is nu een hele goede, die wil ik ook!

Darn expensive for a cardboard box!

Yes please - complete waste of wood for a cremation otherwise...

Perfect! It's just going in the ground anyway.

AMEN.....SOLD!!!

Makes sense to me!

Nothing wrong with that idea. Better than burying something that looks like a grand piano in the ground.

Those are usually used for cremation.

Best idea ever for a quick sensible funeral, little waste, the dead really can't care. I reckon it is a bit pricy, depending on the lining of course has to be 'waterproofed'

You don’t need any more than that.

How can I find this place?

I find it interesting that these cardboard boxes are being marketed (& sold?) to the general “Private” public. This is the box used for "Public" (paupers or poor) people no one claims, where family is not found, or, the family chooses to relinquish all familial rights over the deceased persons remains or land usage now and in the forever future. Even if a Private family could choose a cardboard box for a full body interment, most cemeteries require what is called an "outside container" (concrete, steel, liner) which the casket is placed into before burial. One reason for usage of outside containers is consideration of bio-hazard impacts of decaying human remains on the ground water or other water ways in communities, and, animal depredation. Human bodies decaying in cardboard boxes in cemetery grounds of an established community …. Yeah, better ask a LOT of questions on this item.

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Perfect for cremation

Enviromenally Sound!

Donate every organ in my body that's still not too damaged by alcohol, burn the rest. In the first and best cardboard box you find. Thank you.

That's what I want. I told my husband to put me in a cardboard box and chuck me into the ground. Either that or do it the cheapest way possible. I'm sick of the exploitation of the funeral industry.

$20 @ U-Haul

Why does there need to be a coffin at all, unless the body is really in bad shape? I am against expensive coffins, embalming, or any other wasteful excesses over a dead body, and that includes cremation (the emission alone are a problem).

Just throw me in the sea!

Somehow the poetry of it fails: “oh, I'd be better off/In a cardboard box/on a slow train back to Georgia….”

It's our most modestly priced receptacle

Top me off with pine needles and set me ablaze

$85 for a large cardboard box? The mark up on that is still unnecessarily high. Just order something small from Amazon and they’ll ship it to you in a box that’s way too big, do it a few times, stick the boxes together and you’ve got a cardboard casket for free

We get buried in a sheet. Penny's best for me

The terms "top shelf" or "bottom shelf" comes from liquor sales and how the good stuff is on higher shelves. But it looks like the same idea here. The sign for the carboard casket is literally just above the baseboard / carpet.

Yes please. Toss me in an oven and burn me to ashes. My husband and daughters all know if they bury me, I will haunt them to eternity

Toss me in an oven and burn me away. Funerals are horrid things and the thought of being buried makes me want to haunt whoever suggested it. My husband and daughters all know, if they bury me, I will haunt them for all eternity

$85 for cardboard?

Reasonably priced.

Would prefer to be composted.

Pretty sure that's for cremation.

This is the only box I would be willing to be buried in. That way I can still return to the earth.

I'd like that! Also I'd like the planter option. Just stuff my ashes in to a planter with tree/flower seeds and let me turn back in to nature. After all, w're all star dust.

Why not?