More natural end? Just throw me into an oven -- hopefully after death
Pine coffin maker believes in a more grounded kind of burial - LA Times
Don Byrne is only 45, but he's already planned his burial. He wants to be lowered into a shovel-dug grave in one of his own handmade pine coffins.
Byrne lives off the grid on a North Carolina homestead with no electricity or running water. Pounding away with antique hand tools, he builds pine coffins for families who want to return to the days when burials were cheap and simple: a shovel and a plain pine box.
He intends to die the way he lives too — as close to nature as possible. Byrne builds his coffins from raw pine in an outdoor workshop a few steps from a rustic cabin where he lives with his wife and their two small children...
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"We want to go back to when people handled their own funerals instead of having the funeral industry do it," Byrne said as he spun a hand drill to make dowel holes in another coffin. "The grieving process is enhanced by that personal touch and a more natural end, dust to dust."
Pine coffin maker believes in a more grounded kind of burial - LA Times
Don Byrne is only 45, but he's already planned his burial. He wants to be lowered into a shovel-dug grave in one of his own handmade pine coffins.
Byrne lives off the grid on a North Carolina homestead with no electricity or running water. Pounding away with antique hand tools, he builds pine coffins for families who want to return to the days when burials were cheap and simple: a shovel and a plain pine box.
He intends to die the way he lives too — as close to nature as possible. Byrne builds his coffins from raw pine in an outdoor workshop a few steps from a rustic cabin where he lives with his wife and their two small children...
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"We want to go back to when people handled their own funerals instead of having the funeral industry do it," Byrne said as he spun a hand drill to make dowel holes in another coffin. "The grieving process is enhanced by that personal touch and a more natural end, dust to dust."
