What is a Cooling Platform?
Image used with permission from Korowai Caskets https://www.korowaicaskets.co.nz/
Cooling Platforms are designed to quietly sit underneath a coffin, casket or tūpāpaku / body to keep it cool until cremation or burial.
These can be used as an alternative to embalming enabling you to keep your loved one at home during the entire process.
For Hire
Te Atawhai Aroha and Ngā Pou Herenga: the End-of Life and Funeral Guides' Collective have a Cooling Platform each that they hire out to keep a tūpāpaku / body cool in the days before burial or cremation. They also hire out portable freezers and special cooling mats (Manaaki mats) which cool the abdominal area. These can be used alone or in combination with the Cooling Platform.
To hire one of these Cooling Platforms in Rotorua, please contact Kirsty Smith on
021 96 44 55 or email info@taa.nz
In the Eastern Bay of Plenty, email Ruth or Stella funeralguidescollective@gmail.com
or call 020 432 9673
How to Support our Kaupapa
If you are interested in learning more about Te Atawhai Aroha and what we do in the Rotorua region, including volunteering or attending one of our workshops, you can register your interest or donate by visiting our website taa.nz. Or email Kirsty Smith info@taa.nz.
If you are interested in learning more about Ngā Pou Herenga: the End-of Life and Funeral Guides' Collective and what we do in the Whakatāne, Eastern Bay of Plenty region, including our Funeral Guide training, please email funeralguidescollective@gmail.com.
