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There's no shortage of innovation when it comes to dying in an ecologically conscious way. Just looking back through our posts on eco-friendly burials, tombstones, caskets, and urns -- one might think we were totally obsessed with death. Well, maybe we are, and that makes us even more qualified to say that the Coffin Table -- designed by Pratt grad student Charles Constantine -- is probably the most morbidly kick-butt green burial contraption yet.


The non-toxic, untreated pine box is called "Momento," and what makes it so uniquely eco-friendly is that it's designed for use in life as well as death. Why not combine the furniture on both sides of your mortal existence into one? It's the 3 R's in action. Conventional caskets are generally made of old-growth hardwoods and covered in toxic sealants. What a waste. Charles's coffin/table has an open bottom for quicker decomposition -- now that's efficiency.

[via Inhabitat]

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