No frills: the coffin company that wants to bury you in cardboard

Summer reissue: You might be trying to reduce your carbon footprint in everyday life, but what about in death? Alex Casey talks to Becs Bartells, founder of Outside the Box about creating the perfect cardboard casket.  First published February 27 2020 Becs Bartells often forgets she has an empty coffin sitting in the back of … Read more

No frills: the coffin company that wants to bury you in cardboard

You might be trying to reduce your carbon footprint in everyday life, but what about in death? Alex Casey talks to Becs Bartells, founder of Outside the Box about creating the perfect cardboard casket.  Becs Bartells often forgets she has an empty coffin sitting in the back of her station wagon, which can make for … Read more

The Monday extract: What happens to us when we die?

In which philosopher Raymond Bradley ponders whether any part of us survives in any meaningful way when we’re dead. What happens to us when we die? Is survival of our bodily deaths a real possibility? Ask yourself, first, how you conceive of survival. What would it be like for you yourself to survive your bodily death? … Read more