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onacruse

Please! I don't mean to be insensitive to the impending mortality issues that face many of us in this community...but I found the following article (Hillsboro, Oregon, 503-648-5444) quite laughable:

FINALLY
Eco-friendly "Green Burials"
will be available to families in the Pacific Northwest in the near future. Lakeside memorials in a dedicated & protected preserve area without embalming, outer burial containers or vaults required. Only natural biodegradable materials will be used. Green Burial properties will include ecological and environmental easements and restrictions to protect and maintain the natural and materially untouched state of the designated areas. Memorials are comprised of natural indigenous rocks, boulders, trees, and shrubs. Reservations are now being accepted. Help save our natural resources.

Geez! I wonder where they came up with this unique idea of burying the dead?

I'm sorry. I am missing the humor here. I think ecological buriel is a good idea. The alternative is cremation which many find disagreeable. I'd like to know more about this frankly.
There is a cremation society called Neptune I have always been interested in.
This would provide another alternative, natural buriel.

I say its great!!!

anewme

Oh, I might add that today the cost of buriel in a cemetery is extremely expensive. It can cost up to $20k to buy "at need" buriel site, vault, casket, service and maintenance.

I think anything to lower the outrageous cost of buriel is a good idea.

kid-A

Its an awesome idea, I mean, what purpose does a coffin really serve anyways??? If they planted a tree above each body, imagine the stunning forest they would have in a few years!

From dust to dust !!

anewme

I agree Kid-A! What an awesome memorial grounds it would make! Very beautiful! Better than all the memorial tombs in the grave yard. And there is kind of a competition thing going on in those cemeteries, have you noticed? Some memorials are huge and expensive, others are modest and some are just copper plates on a marble wall (mausoleum crypts). I get so claustrophobic when I think of being jammed up in an airtight marble wall forever!!!!!

The green buriel sounds clean and pretty to look at and everyone is equal. It would be a place to visit and rest and meditate.

I used to have alot of pets. One by one they passed on and I grew a rose garden around their graves. 50 roses of the sweetest scent and color with a bird bath in the middle is what I created for my little loves.
Ducks, chickens, a turkey, my beloved dog Gucci, various crows, pigeons, a cat and kitten, doves, etc. are all there. But eventually someone will turn the soil there someday and find very little of my little pets.

kid-A

Anewme:

Yes I think this idea will take off eventually. I mean, you could just place a small copper place or engraved rock beside the tree. Instead of killing trees for the billion dollar coffin industry, you would be giving new life to a forest in the shadow of your own life. I think this is an idea that would appeal to millions of people.

The funeral industry is perhaps the most profitable in North America selling us a product we dont need.

avishai

Uhh, Jews have been doing this for thousands of years. Jewish burial custom only allows for a simple wooden coffin, no embalming fluid, etc. Funny. And yet it's now "cutting edge"

anewme

I understand the need to respect the memory of the dead. After all they were the mothers and fathers and sons and daughters of the living today. But walking through a cemetery you can quickly see that many of the graves are very old and that most likely the descendants of the folks buried there are not alive anymore either. How often do the great great grandchildren search out and visit their grandparents graves?
Why do we memorialize people forever? Is it a wish to see them again? Does our memory of them keep them alive in a way?

I personally have no children. All my nieces and nephews are JWs and consider me dead. There is no one to miss me when I die....ok my new husband says he will miss me when I die. But he says he will kill himself on the day I die, so I will not have someone to miss me for long.

I think for my body to become part of a lovely green park would be the best arrangement for me.
Why pay all that money for a grave and memorial stone and nobody visit it anyway?

For many the green buriel idea is perfect.

I did ask my new hubby to cremate me and scatter my ashes in the Humbolt Forest of California. Then he can visit this spot of beauty and think of me and our love and my ashes will do the redwoods some good.
This costs about $1,500-$2,000 with Neptune. They take care of everything and give you some ashes to go and scatter or keep as you wish.

Carmel

"...protoplasm must die so protoplasm can live..."

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tetrapod.sapien

when i am "old enough", i am just going to walk into the wilderness, and lay down and die. and then the animals can eat me.

seriously.

TS

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