[Greenbuilding] Green Funerals

[natural building]

With all due respect to Rob for his recent loss...

I want to advocate for the Maasai method of 'burial' in East Africa.

They leave the dead body in the bush just outside the village in the evening.
If they corpse has not been completely eaten by hyenas or other scavengers in the night it is regarded as a bad omen...

Seems about as 'Green' as you can get in my estimation.

Steve Satow

www.naturalbuildingsite.net
naturalbuilding at shaw.ca

On 2012-02-01, at 11:12 AM, RT wrote:

> 
> So, since the List is so quiet and since off-topic topics with which everyone is intimate (ie in the past - drying laundry, choices for toilets, battery chargers) seems to encourage contributions from people who would otherwise not likely post a message, I wonder if listmembers would care to talk about funerals ... something that is fresh on my mind and something that it seems many friends and acquaintances have also had to deal with in recent weeks and no doubt, something that all of us will have to deal with at some point in the future.
> 
> ie I'm curious as to the attraction that cremation seems to hold for many,  an option which has claims of "Green" being associated with it (an opinion with which I disagree).
> 
> ie The "Green" UK practise of "upright" burials, ostensibly with an eye to conserving space.
> I have visions of the effects of frost heave creating horrific scenes every Spring if this practise were carried out in most Canadian locales.
> 
> ie cardboard coffins ? N-n-n-nyeh. Rented coffins ? Mmmnhh.
> ... and so on.
> 
> -- 
> === * ===
> Rob Tom
> Kanata, Ontario, Canada
> 

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