Claire and Rupert Callender of the Green Funeral Company pose for a photograph with a environmentally friendly coffin in woodland close to their office at Dartington Hall Estate on February 4, 2011 near Torquay, England. The Devon-based company operates as funeral directors and undertakers throughout the South West, offers an ecological alternative to traditional funerals, with coffins made from ecologically friendly materials such as wicker and bamboo, and can arrange funerals that encompass diverse religious and spiritual beliefs everything from a Catholic Requiem Mass, to a Pagan ritual at a stone circle on Bodmin Moor. (Photo by Matt Cardy/Getty Images)

Designer William Wainman with one of his eco-friendly bamboo coffins April 8, 2001 shown as part of the “Day for the Dead” event at The Natural Death Centre in Cricklewood, North London. The coffins, made from “Panda Friendly” bamboo, reflect a growing demand for environmentally sound funerals. The coffins are watertight and biodegrade in about eight months. (Photo by Sion Touhig/Newsmakers)

Designer Hazel Selina displays her “Ecopod” environmentally friendly coffin, and an “acorn” papier mache urn for cremation ashes April 8, 2001 as part of the “Day for the Dead” event at The Natural Death Centre in Cricklewood, North London. (Photo by Sion Touhig/Newsmakers)

Willow basket maker Dave Elliott prepares a finished willow coffin for dispatch in the workshops of P H Coate & Son's English Willow Coffins at the Willows and Wetlands Visitor Centre in the village of Stoke St Gregory near Taunton on March 8, 2010 in Somerset, England. The company founded in 1819 and still run by the same family has been growing and weaving willow in the heart of the Somerset levels for nearly 200 years. More recently the company has diversified into offering a selection of the handmade willow coffins, crafted by skilled basket makers, using traditional and sustainable methods. Willow coffins increasingly favored as an alternative to traditional coffins due to their aesthetic appeal and for sound environmental reasons. (Photo by Matt Cardy/Getty Images)