Green Funeral Caskets
When someone you love has died, the funeral ceremony reflects what that person meant to you, your family, and their friends. Many people note that a family directed funeral resonates with family values and holds fast to the wishes of the deceased.
Remarkable people should be remembered, honored, and their lives celebrated. The choice of a casket should reflect the values that informed their life, their family relationships, their passions and honor their legacy.
We offer environmentally responsible caskets that sustain the environment, our earth and Austin. Austin Natural Caskets is a local business. We use pecan and cypress hardwood and pine sustainably harvested in Texas and the Southern United States.
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Communtiy Resources
Austin has community resources that can help you have a traditional funeral that won't challenge your finances. Traditional funerals were held were in the home and becoming more popular responding to a need for a more heartfelt ceremony that brings closure to the family gracefully.
Resources and Home Funerals in our menu offer Austin funeral resource options and videos.
Discover how to plan an affordable funeral:
- Funeral Ceremony choices
- A Funeral Home / Mortuary ceremony
- Church Memorial service
- Family-directed funeral
- Funeral Casket choices
- Cardboard casket (lowest cost)
- Fiberboard casket (lower cost)
- Pecan hardwood casket
- Cypress hardwood casket
- Pine casket (Jewish and traditional funerals)
- Metal casket
- Funeral shroud (traditional funerals)
- The disposition of the body
- Burial and choice of cemetery
- Cremation, cremation urn or scattering the ashes
- Organ or tissue donation
- Academic donation or
- Legacy donation