Green Funerals

The Whistler • April 21, 2008

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.

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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?

Quite simply, because it makes most people feel better to care for the body and then bury it on prime real estate. This is true in most major cultures throughout the world, so it may be something universal to our human psyche.

I much rather prefer cremation. The casket can be rented for a few days.

There is also this option.
http://dougeefargo.blogspot.com/ dougee

Correct me if I’m wrong but don’t they use cement and coffins to keep and diseases the dead body has from getting into the ground and possibly getting into a water source used for drinking? I thought I heard that somewhere. My family goes to visit my grandpa’s burial place about once a year. Being buried without a tombstone just sounds weird to me.

And I would rather stay away from and not participate in anything that calls itself green: prius, carbon credits, environmentally safe sex (I don’t even understand that one), and burial practices. I think it’s best to ignore the children and not give them any attention so this does not continue further.
Anthony

I have never understood embalming, lets make my dead body stay around longer, yeah.

I understand the need peple have to care for their loved ones, hence the burial practices all over the world, and even to mark graves so that they may be visisted later. But embalimg a body to make it not decompose? I don’t get that one.

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