Green Funerals
I find most of the green movements affectations - such as carbon credit indulgences to let them drive their luxury vehicles and live in their massive homes guilt-free - to be pretty absurd, but the idea of a “green” graveyard doesn’t sound that bad:
I’ve always found the funeral industry to be a bit…contrived. Why does my dead body need a steel casket and cement vault when it’s going to decompose regardless? And have you considered what most modern burial plots look like anyway? Unlike the monument parks of old, where each grave marker was as unique as the individual it was marking, modern grave yards are acres of uniform headstones that, in a lot of instances, aren’t even allowed to stick up for the ground lest maintenance crews have to mow around them.
I’d rather be chucked in a hole under a tree stump than be memorialized like that. If that saves the world some steel, concrete and formaldehyde so be it.
