More and more people choose shroud instead of coffin

#Lijkwade Or coffin?
We all die, and every deceased must eventually be buried or cremated.
In some, this is accompanied by a great farewell ritual, with or without religious rituals, while in others it is more intimate.
The farewell ceremonies are often moments when all those involved feel connected and find support together.
It is logical that around all forms of farewell ceremonies a great commerce has arisen and large sums are often spent for a funeral.
This also means that a lot of trends have emerged in the whole of commerce around this inevitable event for everyone.
34 years ago, my then 17 year old brother was cremated and this was still quite exceptional in my small border town.
Many thought it lurid at the time, and the Catholics did not think it appropriate, and did not yet know how to deal with it.
Now cremations are no longer peculiar at all, and they are generally accepted.

Trends were more and more common in boxes, flowers, urns, etc.
Burying someone in a shroud I hadn't heard about it myself until yesterday.
Except in the East, where that's the normal norm.
Apparently it can also be here in Belgium and the Netherlands for quite some time, hey I was looking at that.

After some research I found both pictures and enough explanations to satisfy my curiosity, and to share this with you.
Now I have been able to make a good picture of it and a shroud seems interesting to me in several ways.

In an article by Radio 2 https://radio2.be/oost-vlaanderen/nieuwe-trend-bij-uitvaarten-geen-kist-maar-wikkeldoek?fbclid=IwAR1yk3prFtLtKrMqykLOjTa9Epyo7xX59ZyN2hfTCITxroPpsvt15hehV2s
I read, among other things, that a funeral centre in Maldegem had started working with it out of necessity rather than that it was a trend.