Odd News Roundup: Parisian undertaker aims to introduce bicycle hearse in France

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Parisian undertaker aims to introduce bicycle hearse in France

Undertaker Isabelle Plumereau cycled around Paris on a recent autumn day with a bicycle hearse that she hopes will soon bring a new "green" way of conducting funerals to the French capital. Quieter, environmentally conscious burials are a small but growing trend, and Plumereau says transporting the coffin with a specially designed cargo bike can confer a more down-to-earth pace to a funeral.