An AP article in today's paper aboout coffins made of recycled newspapers are part of a trend toward "natural" burieals, which require no formaldehyde embalming, no cement vaults, chemical lawn treatments or laminated caskets. Advocates say such burials are less damaging to the environment.
The use of fossil fuels in cremation has raised questions about the eco-friendliness of that method.
Boidegradable containers would cost from about $100 for a basic cardboard box to more than $3000 for a fancy, handpainted model. The market is potentially huge.
All you would need to be a cherry tree is your body, a burial site, a cardboard coffin, and a cherry tree planted on top of you.
Fad, or viable alternative burial concept?
2007-12-27 13:42:20 · 25 answers · asked by Isadora 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Senior Citizens
Apparently there is no odor problem However, I have read that in cemetaries centuries ago, escaping gases from bodies could be seen hovering mistily above graves. Possibly one explanation for ghost stories in grave yards?
2007-12-27 14:15:51 · update #1
What an awesome idea!! I am planning on being cremated as I don't think we can afford to waste anymore space. But if I could be buried some where and my body bring nutrients to a cherry Tree that would be wonderful!! What a great question!! I think very viable alternative if we can get past all the funeral directors making a killing on funerals!! No pun intended!
2007-12-28 17:11:14 · answer #1 · answered by Peapie 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I always thought that once a girl had lost her cherry that was it. Seems that there is a new alternative.
Seriously I couldn't care less what happens to this piece of clay when my spirit has left it but I carry an organ donor card right between my ambulance benefits card and drivers license just in case there can be some good come from my passing.
I got a nectarine tree on top of my red heeler.
Just a question for Kings on his taxidermy proposition. Would it be OK to have certain parts preserved larger than life?
2007-12-27 19:45:01 · answer #2 · answered by happylady216 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The idea of being a cherry tree when we die is an option we'd take up without question.
As for eating cherries that had grown due to "corpse compost" - other forms of compost contain chicken, pig or horse poop so what's the more disgusting lol.
We have a rose garden at the side of our house and we have had some nice blooms over the years. Earlier this year our daughter's gerbils had to be euthanised (they were senior gerbils at almost 3yrs old) and we buried them both in the rose garden. We've seen an increase this year of the amount of blooms and rapid growth. Now we aren't saying that is entirely down to 2 tiny gerbils, it might be tho!
Yes the idea is definately growing on us. Would much rather have family enjoy the beauty of cherry blossom than a cold, expensive headstone.
2007-12-27 23:47:34 · answer #3 · answered by ? 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Man, these markting types can be geniuses.
Instead of continuing to bang their heads against the brick wall of public perception, now they call those cheap cardboard and wooden coffins "biodegradable burial containers" and they sell the HECK out of 'em. Throw a set of stencil patterns on 'em, grab the spray paint, and voila! Custom, hand-painted works of grave art.
Then charge about 10 times the commercial nursery price for a cherry tree sapling. Who cares if having to water those new graveyard orchards in perpetuity ultimaely causes greter environmental damage?
Y'know, I think we've uncovered a better racket than weddings!
2007-12-28 00:05:52 · answer #4 · answered by Der Lange 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
It's actually a very "Jewish" concept. In our religion we do not cremate, but we also do not embalm the remains. We are to be buried in a plain pine box with the intent of returning to the earth. Do you really think there'd be a problem with odor, or that the fruit of such a tree would be somehow tainted? I think not.
2007-12-27 15:44:16 · answer #5 · answered by Bubbeh C 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
That is a rather cool idea. Husband and I have already told the children not to embalm or cremate.
Takes a few years before trees produce fruit, so why not be the fertilizer?
I don't think people realize everything of the Earth is used and reused/recycled continuously anyway.
2007-12-27 15:10:59 · answer #6 · answered by kriend 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
I live in S.W. Missouri - and there is man in Lebanon - about 50 miles from my home, who is building caskets such as you outline in your post. Personally, being Jewish I will not be cremated, nor will I be embalmed. I will however be "interred in the traditional manner" and this means a plain wooden casket. And if a cherry tree is planted on top - well then some nice soul has been extremely generous.
2007-12-27 13:58:00 · answer #7 · answered by CJ 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋
I'd like to see a photo of the leaves, particularly the tiny white dots, before giving a diagnosis, but here's a possibility. It could be powdery mildew. A general fungicide would help, if it is powdery mildew. You can take a sample of the infected leaves to your County Ag Extension Agent and they should be able to help identify the problem. The Ag Extension Agent typically has an office in the county courthouse.
2016-04-11 04:19:06 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There's an old Tom Russell song I've always admired:
"Lay me down by the river, boys,
Facing the hot desert sun
Where the winds will scatter my spirits
After the coyotes are done."
I'd prefer it over a cardboard box, but naturally someone would object, so a cardboard water-heater box would suffice in my view. Cheaper than the coffin option.
2007-12-27 13:52:31 · answer #9 · answered by Jack P 7 · 6⤊ 0⤋
Forget Cherry Trees and Cherry blossoms. Just take me up to the nearest oak tree, dig a DEEP hole and throw me in.
Now that what I call Eco friendly, you won't even have to waste a tree.
I think I am the most bio degradable
2007-12-28 22:23:34 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋