Wilms
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Fri Mar-04-05 04:53 AM
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In the mail came an advertisment for a mortuary.
It included a business reply card listing, with a check box next to each one, the various services they offer.
I didn't see what I wanted so I wrote-in, "Green Burial", and added a check next to it.
I'll mail it tomorrow.
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Jamastiene
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Fri Mar-04-05 05:01 AM
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1. What is a green burial? |
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I've been thinking creamation for myself, because I'd rather not be embalmed and put in a vault, casket, and all sorts of other expensive useless accessories to separate me from the natural process of decomp. I know it sounds morbid, but I'd rather be creamated, than to rot in a smelly casket. Just in case...
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Wilms
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Fri Mar-04-05 05:14 AM
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2. Green burial is just a hole in the ground. |
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A sheet wrapped around you. A pile of dirt, a pile of your friends, and nothing to mark the spot except a tree nearby, etc.
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Fri Mar-04-05 05:48 AM
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3. I could go with that, but |
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aren't the laws set up against that in most states?
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Fri Mar-04-05 05:53 AM
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4. That may be right. But not in all states. |
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I read, too, that cremation is an air pollution source.
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Fri Mar-04-05 06:48 AM
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with all that greasy smoke. And, it adds to gobal warming-- it's still a fire, but it produces no heat, energy, or anything else we can use.
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Fri Mar-04-05 08:51 AM
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9. Don't forget Hg from dental fillings n/t |
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Fri Mar-04-05 06:54 AM
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the gold-trimmed mahogany coffin, embalming, and some of the other stuff, but a cheap pine box is reasonably eco-friendly, and might be required by law. And, it looks better to the family than just dumping a bag into the ground.
I'm not sure what's so un-green about a simple headstone.
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Wilms
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Fri Mar-04-05 07:08 AM
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7. You may be right about the box. |
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But a headstone?
If I haven't left a mark, that's not a good place to put one.
Plus hikers could trip on it.
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Fri Mar-04-05 07:25 AM
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8. Read Jessica Mitford's "The American Way of Death" |
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It was published years ago, but it's timeless and an eye-opener. It's an expose' of the scurrilous practices of the funeral industry.
Cremation for me.
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Fri Mar-04-05 09:14 PM
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10. Here's an option: Donation to a medical school. |
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I'm trying to talk my wife into it, though she's dubious about the idea and is leaning towards cremation.
I think the perfect end for me would be to end up as slide samples, anatomy class dissection tool or classroom skeleton.
Of course, I might not be a safe skeleton since I was born during the age of atmospheric nuclear testing and thus almost certainly have - gasp - more radioactive strontium-90 in my bones than the average Joe.
But it's not my decision about what to do with my carcass: it's my wife's and kids. I will have no opinion on the matter since I will not exist.
I am very fortunate inasmuch as I have a reasonable expectation of having all three of them as my survivors, since I'm the oldest of the bunch. Whatever turns them on is fine with me.
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Fri Mar-04-05 10:04 PM
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11. Your easy to please. n/t |
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Sat Mar-05-05 01:57 PM
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12. Not really, but in this case, my opinions are hardly important or |
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