Eco-friendly burials are becoming more popular

[Kaleva]

An excerpt from the home page of the Green Burial Council

"Our vision

We want to see eco-friendly end-of-life rituals become a viable option for honoring the dead, healing the living, and inviting in the divine.

We want to protect the legitimate benefits of environmentally sustainable deathcare such as the reduction of carbon emissions, toxification, and waste....."

http://www.greenburialcouncil.org/

Interesting that they suggest that the body be buried no greater then a depth of 3 feet to aid in rapid decomposition of the deceased.

[Taverner]

1. I wanna be made into saussages and eaten by my friends

No seriously, this sounds cool - the eco-funeral that is

[Javaman]

9. SOYLENT GREEN IS MY BEST FRIEND!!!!

Meh, it's a bit stingy. He could have worked out more.

[NYC_SKP]

2. Environmentally better that we be used as fuel.

Whatever methane would result from decomposition should be burned to produce electricity rather than enter the atmosphere.

Our fats could become a liquid fuel, too!

[joshcryer]

5. The most efficient use would be to consume the deceased.

:O

[Kolesar]

7. My body has been bio-accumulating mercury for decades ... eom

[elleng]

3. Pushing up daisies, thats what I want to do.

[frazzled]

4. Jews have been burying green for millennia

Only a plain wood coffin (traditionally not even any nails in it), no embalming (bury within 48 hours).

That said, this 'green burial' shtick is a little over the top for me.

[Kolesar]

6. Did they bond Ben Gurion's casket with "guerrilla glue"?

I think a bequeath that natural gas not be wasted to burn my body is pretty sweet.

[frazzled]

8. Wooden pegs

Plain pine box constructed without metal hardware or even nails (though I suspect only the most traditional Jews observe the no nails thing). The reason is that nails don't decompose quickly, and the "to dust you shall return" is taken seriously.

The fairly universal use of a plain pine coffin goes back to the scholar Maimonedes, "who first promulgated this ruling, both to guard against ostentation and to symbolize that all people are equal in death."

[Javaman]

10. As I crest the mid point in my life and look at the "down slope"...

I have been considering what exactly to do with my remains.

No burning for me, that was never an option. Carbon and all that.

Thought about the whole "having the vultures pick me to pieces thing", which I might still consider but it makes for a big mess.

I have finally figured it out. My only issue is what to be buried in. I thought about a wicker basket, but then I heard about cardboard, "caskets", but the cardboard, even if recycled, still has to be manufactured. More carbon.

so I have settled on a wicker basket, made by hand, to be buried no more than 4 feet in the ground. Over which a fruit tree of some sort will be planted.

I have been an environmentalist my whole life. I have done the best I could, with my income to reduce my carbon foot print as best as I could. I'm doing more to give back and get my foot print to zero.

My last parting gift to this world, is to give life in the form of a tree. To which anyone can eat from.

[wtmusic]

11. Steve Buscemi was very efficiently recycled in "Fargo"

I would want an electric chipper, though

[Kolesar]

12. I found out that Fargo was not *actually* a true story

I was pissed

[wtmusic]

13. Me too

If I'm going to indulge my morbid curiosity I want honest indulgement :(

[Kolesar]

14. The ending where the car salesman went off to jail forever just made me feel good

a nod to your "recycling" joke :rofl:

[wtmusic]

15. Many classic moments and performances in that film

:thumbsup: