[Greenbuilding] Green Funerals

[Steven Tjiang]

Would a solar cooker get hot enough? ..I suspect you end up having a
barbeque instead of cremation.

But the greenest is to just have to the corpse be chopped up and just fed
to the animals.  No?

---- Steve (KZ6LSD)


On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 2:48 PM, <bill.allen at verizon.net> wrote:

> 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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>
> 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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> (manually winnow the chaff from my edress if you hit "reply")
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