Since we launched our environmental coffin website last Autumn over 250,000 people have typed in our keywords for cardboard coffins, environmental coffins and of course eco coffins. It’s extraordinary how many people are out there changing their thinking about death.

Only tonight I was at a conference and the talk focused on how the environment is forcing the Funeral Industry to change. It’s predicted that one in five coffins will be eco-friendly in five years. Choice – the word we take for granted so often in life – is finally becoming available in death.

The real highlight was to hear about one of the UK’s best woodland burial sites – Colney Wood near Norwich. It’s a wonderful wood which really captures the spirit of how funerals should be.