[Greenbuilding] Green Funerals

[bill.allen at verizon.net]

To be "green" it must be sustainable.  Allocating any amount of physical space to the dearly departed is just not sustainable. We will eventually run out of room.  Perhaps that is why people like cremation...you can be scattered at your favorite place(s).  Perhaps if the cremation was accomplished via a solar cooker it would be greener still?

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Subject: [Greenbuilding] Green Funerals


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.

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Rob Tom
Kanata, Ontario, Canada

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