A cardboard casket can save on Funeral Cost. There actually can be more dignity and low funeral cost with a simple pine box or a pressed cardboard casket. This low cost funeral option is available today just as it was 1971 for a Supreme Court Justice who insisted on LOWER Funeral Cost.

“A funeral service was held for my father at the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C. Over 1,000 people attended, including the President of the United States…..In making the funeral arrangements, we had only three directives from my father: 1) simple, 2) cheap, 3) no open casket.”—Credit to the Funeral Consumers Alliance for a great article!

http://www.funerals.org/frequently-asked-questions/funeral-arrangements/28-arrangements/51-qsimple-and-cheapq-my-father-said

In {Canada} British Columbia —a Victoria funeral parlor is presenting lower funeral cost by selling cardboard caskets covered in wood veneer. They are made from cardboard, that is recycled and pressed to provide strength. The caskets come in imitations of pine, oak and other fine wood.

Cardboard caskets require less time and fuel in the cremation process, which reduces emissions. and put out less chemicals. Many are choosing cremation as an alternative to burial.

The caskets cost less than their real wood counterparts and it is expected the price will be reduced as sales increase. Your Funeral Guy has sold cardboard caskets.

Cremation however may not be green.
Cremations are coming under a lot of scrutiny due to harm to the environment. Cremation fires are not the best thing for the upper atmosphere.
Cremation comes with ashes and an urn.
Cremated remains need to placed, buried or scattered.
Biodegradable caskets are used in a green funeral without a vault and leave no embalming chemicals in the ground.

The best reason for biodegradable cardboard caskets is lower cost and a healthier environment.

What do you think?

Would you go down for the last time in a cardboard casket?

Lower cost funerals provide for a better future.and more money for the living.

More information can be found here including average funeral cost.:

Rest in Peace: Insider’s Tips to the Low Cost Less Stress Funeral by R Brian Burkhardt and Matt Bacak. #1 International Best Selling Author Jason Oman also gave thumbs up to this book. This book is published by Morgan James Publishing.

Your Funeral Guy, R Brian Burkhardt, Funeral Director, Author, Blogger, State of Illinois