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Funeral home offers green alternatives to modern burials

By Paul Bowers

Charleston City Paper | February 27, 2012

A woman stared into the empty pine coffin, eyeing the rough-hewn shroud inside with apprehension. “Well, it’s got burlap, and that makes me itch,” she said. She immediately realized what an odd thing it was to say about a wrapping for a lifeless body, but she repeated it anyway. "It does. It makes me itch."

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