Kent Woodworker Offers 'Natural' Burial Choice
All wood caskets part of Down to Earth Woodworks product list
Brek Jacobson doesn't want to put anything in the ground that doesn't break down. That ideology is what led the Kent woodworker and owner of Down to Earth Woodworks to create his "green casket," an all wood coffin available directly to the public and via Bissler & Sons Funeral Home and Crematory. Jacobson said the idea came about as part of a discussion with his friends in the woodworking business. He started researching eco-friendly burial methods when he came across a statistic showing the enormity of products used in modern burials. Enough steel, used in coffin construction, is buried annually in the U.S. to build a span the size of the Golden Gate Bridge, according to Discovery.com. Add to that the granite headstones, concrete burial …
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Brek Paton Jacobson
2:03 pm on Friday, February 1, 2013
Hi Bob, Great to hear from you too! I regret not getting to see you around here anymore. I hope your move to Tennessee has brought you and Carolyn lots of joy! Speaking of the Oval Cabinet, I am bummed out that I am not around to make any slight adjustments to it's moving parts. Over the years, I'm sure it has experienced the extremes of it's natural wood movement, and thus, could use some … more ›