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BOULDER, Colo., Feb. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Creating a convenient one-stop shop for eco-friendly home & garden, office and building products, Ellie's Eco Home Store opened its doors for sustainable business in November 2008. Today, Ellie's announces a partnership with Natural Transitions, a local non-profit resource, and Nature's Casket, a manufacturer of eco-friendly caskets made from Colorado beetle-kill pine. "In a typical 10-acre section of cemetery, the grounds contain enough coffin...

A company in New Mexico is building all-wood human coffins in a partnership with People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA). The coffins come with painted slogans, such as "Lifetime PETA Member" or "I saved 500 animals." One in particular, plays on a long-running PETA advertisement: "Told You I Wouldn't Be Caught Dead in Fur!"Each coffin is made of wood and designed to be Earth-friendly, with no screws, nails, hinges or animal-based glues. The company released them for sale last week...

Loyal fans of the Boston Red Sox can now back their team even in death thanks to new coffins featuring the MLB team's logo, a funeral director says. Magoun-Biggins Funeral Home co-director Dan Biggins said his site in Rockland, Mass., has received the first-ever officially licensed Red Sox coffin and will begin offering the sports-related funerary item to diehard Sox fans, The Boston Globe said Monday. It's really a beautiful thing, Biggins said. It's really neat. The logo of the popular...

By BURGESS, Dave STUNTMAN Andrew Stehlin has died a hundred deaths in some of the biggest Hollywood movies, so his latest venture should come as no surprise -- designing and building kitset coffins. The 38-year-old Kiwi has been shot, blown up and minced in movies such as the Lord of the Rings trilogy, King Kong and 30 Days of Night. "Experiencing death so many times -- so to speak -- is pretty much an everyday experience for me." During the past five months he has used his background as...

A Pennsylvania casket maker has filed a lawsuit to prevent some Texas stores from selling cheap Chinese knockoffs of its funerary boxes. The York Group filed its lawsuit in state court in Houston, alleging that a Chinese company has violated a court order not to distribute knockoffs and look-alikes of its products in the United States, the Houston Chronicle reported Monday. The Chinese manufacturer, Wuxi Taihu Tractor Co., has denied it sells copies of York's products, the newspaper...

By Orla RyanTESHIE, Ghana -- The day before his mother's funeral, Donald Rockson had a last-minute change of heart about her bible-shaped coffin.He had wanted the coffin to reflect his mother's position as a devout churchgoer in this suburb of Accra, Ghana's capital."She is a church elder so it should be a bible in which she is buried," he explained. "But the coffin was not nice, it was not presentable."Ditching the bible idea, his search for the perfect coffin brought him...

By Kevin Krolicki BELLE CHASSE, Louisiana (Reuters) - In Plaquemines Parish, south of New Orleans, the living mostly escaped Hurricane Katrina. Those already dead and buried were not so lucky. Only three deaths were recorded here when the eye of the storm tore up the slip of land that follows the last bend of the Mississippi River as it spills into the Gulf of Mexico. But more than two months later, local officials are still trying to identify dozens of concrete crypts, coffins, and...