[Greenbuilding] Green Funerals

[Clarke Olsen]

The Catacombs under Paris are a minor tourist attraction. 
Maybe the bones could find their final place as a Disney Death Drive.

Clarke Olsen
373 route 203
Spencertown, NY 12165 
USA
518-392-4640
colsen at fairpoint.net




On Feb 2, 2012, at 4:41 PM, RT wrote:

> .......
> While I like the idea of sky burials (moreso than the Two Steves ideas of chopping up our loved ones into little pieces and using them for animal feed), there's still the issue of what to do with the bones once they have been picked clean by the scavengers.
> 
> There is an old Chinese practise that is somewhat similar to sky burials where the corpse is buried temporarily for three years and then exhumed after decomposition of the soft tissue has been completed and the bones are cleaned and transferred to an urn for permanent storage.
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> Rob Tom
> Kanata, Ontario, Canada
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