Feb 11 2008Burial At Sea: The Biodegradable Shell

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The Shell is a pressed paper capsule that holds your ashes when you're dead. Your loved ones can write messages on the outside, or insert them into the convenient slot on top. Then they throw it overboard and you slowly sink into the beautiful blue yonder. The unit slowly disintegrates over time, leaving nothing behind. Awesome, I think this may be the way I want to go. I originally wanted to be packed with fireworks and dropped out of a plane, but I reckon this'll do.

Another picture of a woman holding one, after the jump.

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Ghost in the Shell... [yankodesign]

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1. Fred - February 11, 2008 12:09 PM

First!!!!!

2. Fred - February 11, 2008 12:10 PM

and that thing looks like a football. anyone up for a game of catch?

3. CamSpam - February 11, 2008 12:36 PM

these have been around for awhile we put my dad in one and tossed him overboard

4. Adam - February 11, 2008 12:40 PM

I put my cat in one alive after it peed on my slippers. I take comfort in knowing he knew his death was inevitable.

5. Claire - February 11, 2008 12:40 PM

I like the idea of this :D

6. guate6 - February 11, 2008 2:06 PM

Just like #3, but different: We decided to skip a few steps, so we threw my friend overboard. He kept trying to interrupt our mourning by screaming "help," but eventually he gave in.

7. CamSpam - February 11, 2008 4:44 PM

I was serious you can buy them at a funeral home... LOL

8. ! - February 13, 2008 10:11 PM

@ guate6....wow. what a failed attempt at humor......and you spelled morning wrong!

9. Peregrinus - February 23, 2008 12:09 PM

This just seems like a way to commercially exploit people dying and people looking for "green" products. Aside from the ashes already being "biodegradable", I think being cast into the wind and waves as ashes would be more poetic than being put in a paper-mache thing.

10. rawr - July 21, 2009 7:53 PM

@8
while the humor was tacky, he spelled mourning right. look it up, dummy. :P

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17. Collins Pt. - August 24, 2010 3:11 AM

Biodegradable plastic and packaging is a modern necessity for our ever-endangered environment.
Now PLA has been used to line the indoors of Paper Cups in place of the oil based lining additional usually used, create Plastic Cups, Plates, Carrier Bags, Food Packaging and even Nappies.
Eco Pure is our proprietary blend of organic materials that does not modify the base resin to which it is added.

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18. Collins Pt. - August 24, 2010 3:12 AM

Biodegradable plastic and packaging is a modern necessity for our ever-endangered environment.
Now PLA has been used to line the indoors of Paper Cups in place of the oil based lining additional usually used, create Plastic Cups, Plates, Carrier Bags, Food Packaging and even Nappies.
Eco Pure is our proprietary blend of organic materials that does not modify the base resin to which it is added.

Thanks a lot for your information

19. Collins Pt. - August 24, 2010 3:13 AM

Biodegradable plastic and packaging is a modern necessity for our ever-endangered environment.
Now PLA has been used to line the indoors of Paper Cups in place of the oil based lining additional usually used, create Plastic Cups, Plates, Carrier Bags, Food Packaging and even Nappies.
Eco Pure is our proprietary blend of organic materials that does not modify the base resin to which it is added.

Thanks a lot for your information

20. Collins Pt. - August 24, 2010 3:14 AM

Biodegradable plastic and packaging is a modern necessity for our ever-endangered environment.
Now PLA has been used to line the indoors of Paper Cups in place of the oil based lining additional usually used, create Plastic Cups, Plates, Carrier Bags, Food Packaging and even Nappies.
Eco Pure is our proprietary blend of organic materials that does not modify the base resin to which it is added.

Thanks a lot for your information

21. Collins Pt - October 2, 2010 12:38 AM

Great topic here.
Work of many people on this issue of plastic, there are several plastic materials recycling organic-based view. In February, for example, Imperial College London and bioceramic drug polymer biodegradable plastic from sugar derived from the decay of lignocellulosic biomass. There is also an existing plant more corn starch and plastics based on paper, including household goods and food packaging, bioplastics toys, plastic dynamic Cereplast. Metabolix also several lines of plastic products from corn, in cooperation with partner companies.

22. Collins Pt - October 2, 2010 12:39 AM

Great topic here.
Work of many people on this issue of plastic, there are several plastic materials recycling organic-based view. In February, for example, Imperial College London and bioceramic drug polymer biodegradable plastic from sugar derived from the decay of lignocellulosic biomass. There is also an existing plant more corn starch and plastics based on paper, including household goods and food packaging, bioplastics toys, plastic dynamic Cereplast. Metabolix also several lines of plastic products from corn, in cooperation with partner companies.

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