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A mushroom casket marks a first for ‘green burials’ in the US

Loop Biotech’s “Living Cocoon” is a casket made from mycelium, the root structure of mushrooms.

“I’m probably the only architect who created a final home,” Bob Hendrikx tells The Verge. Tombs and catacombs aside, Hendrikx might be the only one to make a final home using mushrooms.

Hendrikx is the founder and CEO of Loop Biotech, a company that makes caskets out of mycelium, the fibrous root structure of mushrooms. This June, the first burial in North America to use one of Loop Biotech’s caskets took place in Maine.

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“He always said he wanted to be buried naked in the woods.”

The mushroom casket gives people one more option to leave the living with a gentler impact, part of a growing array of what are supposed to be more sustainable …

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