Environment Friendly Coffin

An Australian company has launched a personalised range of environmentally friendly coffins to make the final goodbye a little more individual.

Directors of the company said,"People are becoming increasingly aware of the impact they have on the environment and the availability of a Fair Trade funeral enables people to uphold their values through from life into death."

LifeArt offers customised designs such as an image of a surfer catching a wave, a picturesque scene or the colours of a favourite sports team.

Customers can design their own coffin or choose from a range of designs, such as a woodland glade, an open road, Sydney Harbour Bridge or a cowboy riding off into the sunset.

LifeArt coffins are manufactured from enviroboard, a form of cardboard, which meets the standards required by the funeral industry for either cremation or burial.

The company says it means their clients can "pass away safe in the knowledge that your container (and its treasured contents) can biodegrade quickly and harmlessly with less carbon emissions and without cost to timber forests".