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Coeio was founded by Jae Rhim Lee to reimagine the funeral industry, the environmental impact of death and our relationship with death and dying. Coeio combines Jae Rim’s interdisciplinary study with a team of experts in art, design, fashion and the funeral industry.

Learn more about the history of the project and watch Jae Rhim’s TED talk. Meet the Coeio team. Get to know Dennis White, our first adopter, and watch the documentary about Dennis and his family which was directed and produced by award-winning filmmaker Grace Lee.

Would You Wear a Mushroom-Powered Burial Suit? A Vogue Writer Takes the Plunge

Vogue – 9/10/16

Go Green All the Way to the Grave in This Mushroom Suit

Dwell – 9/8/16

Mushroom-Lined Burial Suit Decomposes Bodies

Seeker – 8/19/16

[Exclusive] Flesh-Eating Mushrooms Are the Future of Burial Tech

The Creators Project – 8/18/16

The Mushroom Suit Becomes A New Trend In Burials

NPR Here & Now – 8/18/16

This $1,500 ‘burial suit’ could replace coffins

Tech Insider – 8/2/16

This suit is filled with mushrooms that were trained to eat you when you die

Business Insider – 5/19/2016

5 non-traditional things to do with your body after you die

The Boston Globe – 5/16/2016

Fish net bikinis and mushroom death suits – eco fashion in pictures

The Guardian – 5/12/2016

Creative Things to Do With a Dead Body

National Geographic – 5/6/2016

Brooklyn’s Wearable Revolution

New York Times – 4/30/2016

Death’s Green Frontier

New York Times – 3/22/2016

Makery – 3/14/2016

Terminally ill Massachusetts man to be buried in eco-friendly mushroom suit

NY Daily News – 3/11/2016

This Eco-Death Suit Lets Mushrooms Consume You When Your Die

Futurism – 3/10/2016

Funerais ecológicos – Qual a tua herança para a Terra?

Noctula Channel – 3/9/2016

Woburn Man Plans To Be Buried In Mushroom Suit

CBS Boston – 3/9/2016

These startups want to kill the coffin

Fusion – 2/29/2016

Getting buried in this suit of mushrooms could help save the planet.

Upworthy – 2/16/2016

Why waste a coffin when you can decompose in a ‘mushroom death suit’?

Digital Trends – 2/16/2016

“Death Suit” That Turns Your Body Into Mushroom Food Will Be Commercially Available This Year

IFL Science – 2/12/2016

This suit made of mushroom spores helps decompose bodies sustainably

Mashable – 2/10/2016

This ‘Death Suit’ Makes Burials Eco- and Wallet-Friendly

takepart – 2/9/2016

Mushroom Burial Suits Let You Die Green

The Lip TV2 – 2/7/2016

When You Die, This Mushroom Suit Will Eat Your Body

Fast Company – 2/4/2016

This Mushroom Burial Suit Turns Dead Bodies Into Compost

BuzzFeed – 2/3/2016

Is There A Better Way To Be Buried?

NPR – 1/29/2016

A New Burial Suit Lets Mushrooms Eat Your Decomposing Body

Popular Mechanics – 1/28/2016

Mushroom burial suit turns dead bodies into clean compost

Grist – 1/28/2016

The Mushroom Death Suit is the Latest in Post-Mortem, Eco-Friendly Fashion

Atlas Obscura – 1/27/2016

The Future of Natural Burial: The Infinity Mushroom

Everlasting Footprint – 9/6/2015

‘Ninja pajamas’ or ‘mushroom death suit’?

CNN – 11/20/2011

The 10 TED Talks They Should Have Censored

Foreign Policy – 5/17/2012

Bioartist training fungi to devour her when she dies

Boing Boing – 7/27/2011

The Sustainable Mushroom Death-Suit

New Scientist – 7/25/2011

Death and Marriage, Weather and Birds

BLDGBLOG – 7/21/2011

Designing a mushroom death suit

New Scientist – 7/20/2011

Wired meets 2011’s TED Fellows

Wired UK – 7/18/2011

Drinking the Kool-Aid at TEDGlobal 2011

New Scientist – 7/15/2011

Report: TEDGlobal 2011, day 2: The Infinity Burial Project

Wired UK – 7/14/2011

Highlights from TED Global 2011, The Stuff of Life: Day Two

brainpickings – 7/13/2011