While I see your point (or, rather, the article's point), I find buying (or renting) a coffin a total waste of money and resources. The entire funeral business is a pointless, total waste, preying on emotions to milk relatives' money. Religion plays a great part in all this, instilling fear and feeding these traditions. I have made it clear to my family that when I die I do not want a luxurious (or any) coffin, or anyone paying for flowers, services, priests, candles, crosses, and all the rest of it. They can donate the money to a good cause. They can put me in a cardboard box and bury me in the ground for all I care. If law requires a formal procedure, I would like to be cremated. Hopefully, by the time I'm gone, there will be cremation services that use the generated energy to mine Bitcoin.