Today's funeral practices are unsustainable, toxic, and polluting. Both cremation and the manufacture and transport of caskets, grave liners, and headstones emit greenhouse gas emissions into the atmosphere. In fact, the very last thing that most of us will do on this earth is poison it. As a response, a system and method called recomposition that gently and naturally returns humans to the earth after death.

A device for maintaining a deceased fetus or infant at a temperature lower than ambient for extending preservation of the fetus or infant includes a frame, a cooling unit operatively attached to the frame, a cradle sized to contain the deceased fetus or infant and operatively attached to the frame, and a power supply conduit. The frame has a top end and a bottom end. The cradle is thermally connected to the cooling unit, and a power supply conduit is connected to the cooling unit.

A funerary insert kit is designed for used with a reusable shell. The insert kit includes a corrugated paper container and at least one fabric segment. The corrugated paper container includes a bottom wall, first and second side walls extending upward from the bottom wall, and first and second end walls extending upward from the bottom wall. The first and second sidewalls, the first and second end walls and bottom wall form an open top container having a width and length configured to reasonably fit an adult human body in supine position. The open top container is configured to fit within the reusable shell. The first fabric segment is affixed to a first rigid substrate. The first rigid substrate configured to fit adjacent an interior surface of at least a first side panel of the reusable shell.

A casket assembly includes a base, and first and second fabric sheets. The base includes a bottom panel, first and second side panels, and first and second end panels. The base has a length and a width sized and adapted to receive a deceased. The first fabric sheet is operably coupled to the base such that the first fabric sheet extends along and adjacent to an inside surface of the first side panel and an edge of the first fabric sheet is movable. The first fabric sheet is sized and coupled to substantially cover a width of the bottom panel. The second fabric sheet is operably coupled to the base such that the second fabric sheet extends along and adjacent to an inside surface of the second side panel and an edge of the second fabric sheet is movable. The second fabric sheet is sized to substantially cover the width of the bottom panel.

A combination casket and ornament comprises a casket shell having a pair of keyhole-shaped grooves in a corner thereof, an L-shaped adapter having a leg and a foot, the leg having a pair of studs on a rear side thereof each of which is received in a respective one of the keyhole-shaped grooves, and a decorative ornament that is three-dimensional an entire 360 degrees about a vertical axis of the ornament, the ornament positioned on the foot of the L-shaped adapter.

A method for preparing a likeness of a deceased human or animal, incorporating said human or animal's cremains in the likeness, prepared on a flat surface, is disclosed.

A casket assembly includes a floor structure, transparent side walls and end walls extending upwardly from a lower rail to define side panels and end panels, and a transparent lid attached to at least one of the side walls. A cardboard insert container made of a material suitable for cremation is sized for receipt within the enclosed casket interior. At least one of the side panels or end panels is movable between a closed position to completely enclose the casket interior and an open position to allow horizontal movement of the insert container holding a deceased human body into and out from the casket interior without having to lift the insert container over the top edge of the side and end panels.

A storage pod for containing a body and decomposition material for decomposing the body in the storage pod includes an elongate housing having opposite ends. The housing contains the body and the decomposition material. The housing defines an interior configured to receive the body and decomposition material, at least one air vent in fluid communication with the interior so that air can enter the interior through the at least one air vent when the housing is closed, and a product inlet in fluid communication with the interior so that decomposition material can enter the interior through the product inlet when the housing is closed.

A storage pod for containing a body and decomposition material for decomposing the body in the storage pod includes an elongate housing having opposite ends. The housing contains the body and the decomposition material. The housing defines an interior configured to receive the body and decomposition material, at least one air vent in fluid communication with the interior so that air can enter the interior through the at least one air vent when the housing is closed, and a product inlet in fluid communication with the interior so that decomposition material can enter the interior through the product inlet when the housing is closed.

A method of forming a polymer concrete CNG tank by forming an inflatable liner member composed of high density polymer impermeable to CNG; providing column forms as part of the liner member, the column forms having open tops and open bottoms and extending completely through the liner member; providing an outer form; positioning the liner member within the outer form with the column forms vertically oriented, the liner member being positioned to provide a gap between the liner member and the outer form; inflating the liner member; pouring polymer concrete about the liner member and through the column forms; and allowing the polymer concrete to cure. Reinforcement members may be positioned around the liner member and within the column forms prior to the step of pouring the polymer concrete.