I've decided that it is environmentally sound and much cheaper than using the expensive coffins which require concrete liners among other things. From dust to dust I say. Some cemeteries are now offering a "green" area for this type of burial.
2007-07-02 07:11:00 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Environment ➔ Green Living
I just realize this category is green "living" and I am talking about death
2007-07-02 07:42:45 · update #1
I totally agree with you. My family isn't hurting for money but I feel that the money they could use for some fancy coffin could be used elsewhere. I think it would make more sense to bury someone in a pine box as opposed to the expensive pine boxes. Its not like your going to be living in there and you need something to make all the other people in the cemetary jealous!
2007-07-02 07:17:51 · answer #1 · answered by Nichole 4 · 5⤊ 1⤋
Pine Box Coffin
2016-11-14 23:53:31 · answer #2 · answered by paukner 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
ORGANIC BURIEL
Do you call killing trees because a human dies green living ??
Shame on you,pine trees are also trees
what is with this racist attitude towards trees .
And i supose you still put a concrete cross or statue on top
Coffins means having to kill trees,even simple ones
a 100 000 000 dead Christians means 10.000 HECTARES OF DEFORESTATION.
The best organic way is ,if you make a hole about one meter square and 2 .5 meters deep.
you place the body in a sitting position,
then you put a load of compost or a bale of hay on top
to assist decomposition
plant a tree and close the hole.
preferable a fruit tree
(the same applies to dead animals .)
If every one did this we would have sacred orchards
instead of deforested plots full of cement,
and the saying ashes to ashes ,
dust to dust would be true .
Instead of sealing it in a box made from murdered trees,often lined with zinc, which prevent the body returning to the soil,
And so breaking the cycle of life,(the dead feeds life which in turns feeds more life and so on )
Breaking second most important law of Nature
Which is THE LAW OF RETURN,
as long as the death is registered ,this is legal all over the world.
2007-07-02 10:23:00 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
My grandma was buried that way a few years ago. It was in her will to be buried that way. The cemetery still required a concrete liner for environmental purposes. When she was young, that was how they did it , & If you owned a home on land, you buried them in your families private cemetary on your land. I don't agree with the over inflated prices in burying people, granted it's not a job everyone would want, but it seems to me the only benifit from expensive coffins and liners is if you wanted to exhume the body later.
2007-07-02 07:25:14 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 2⤋
Seriously. What MORON decided it was a good idea to put a dead body in a $10,000 PLUS coffin, and then to put THAT inside a concrete vault??? Are human beings really THAT toxic??? Personally, I want to go into a cardboard box. Even cremation seems expensive at $500 for the equivalent of a backyard barbecue, but I suppose that can't be helped. What ever happened to the funeral pyre? If it's good enough for Darth Vader, it's good enough for ME!
2007-07-02 07:33:00 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 2⤋
Why destroy a few trees to build your coffin? That's not very green. Just bury you in the backyard. And, forget the embalming fluid (bad for the environment).
2007-07-02 13:15:42 · answer #6 · answered by jdkilp 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No contradiction there. The church of liberalism worships death and "greenness" just about equally.
By all means, get buried in a wood box any time you like. I wanna leave a permanent stain on the planet, so give me one of those $10,000.00 contraptions!!
2007-07-02 07:52:23 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I'm a donor...use what's usable, tissues, organs, bones, whatever. Recycle me as much as possible. Then burn the rest and send my ashes to a company I've heard about but can't remember the name. They mix cremated ashes with concrete, engrave something like "this habitat made possible by..." or "in memory of..." and make artificial habit for coral reeves to build on. The finished product looks a little like those carpeted kitty houses for your cat to climb all over so she doesn't claw up your couch.
I need to find that company again. Saw 'em on a Discovery show a couple months ago.
I wanna grow corals when I'm dead!
2007-07-02 08:08:39 · answer #8 · answered by Moon Maiden 3 · 0⤊ 3⤋
I would love to be buried like that. I think the cost of traditional coffins and related fees is unbelievable these days. The people who sell that stuff always play on your emotions, "What would he have wanted?" Well the answer, if it's about me, would be, "He'd have wanted you to go as cheaply as environmentally friendly as possible."
2007-07-02 07:44:32 · answer #9 · answered by Scotty Doesnt Know 7 · 4⤊ 2⤋
Only if they use refrigeration instead of enbalming fluid to preserve the body until burial.
2007-07-02 08:44:18 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋