A wicker-woven casket emerged from a funeral hearse earlier this month at the Prairie Creek Conservation Cemetery for what would be the final resting place of Barbara Finley James.
The coffin, modest and held together by various plant materials, was placed on a wooden cart. After a brief moment, a man clad in tattoos and flannel introduced himself to the James family, and began detailing the morning’s service.
“This is a fairly participatory process, or at least it can be,” Prairie Creek operations coordinator Kevin Moran said…