[Greenbuilding] Green Funerals

natural building naturalbuilding at shaw.ca
Wed Feb 1 16:55:24 CST 2012


Anyone remember the movie: Soylent Green... There's your solution.

Steve Satow

www.naturalbuildingsite.net
naturalbuilding at shaw.ca

On 2012-02-01, 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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> Green Building <greenbuilding at lists.bioenergylists.org>
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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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