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Green Funerals?

Well, I think it is the way it happened in nature. What's the point of putting a person in a box that's hermetically sealed? (unless you need to exhume the body if you suspect foul play) Let the bugs and worms and such eat at it... hey you ain't gonna be feeling nothing. Think of it as giving back. Might push up some daisies and stuff for real.


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In Germany (in most places) you have to use materials that bio-degrade within 15 years without leaving harmfull residues. Metals are an exception. These rules are quite old. I couldn't bury my father in his uniform (contained synthetics) in 1979. Fatigues would have been okay, they were 100% cotton.
 
Here's howI want to disposed of after I die: Remove all the usable, transplantable organs, then send the rest of my rotting carcass to the rendering plant to be broken down into fertilizer. If you want to remember me, put a commemorative plaque up on the wall somewhere.

Otherwise, funerals and burials just seem a massive, massive waste of money, land, and resources.
 
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Ditto. Donate what's useable, render the rest and make some plant happy.

Take my life insurance and throw one hell of a party.
 
By all means strip my body for useful parts (although given that it's only had one careless owner I doubt there'll be much there), then bury me in woodland with a tree planted on top. Happy tree, happy worms, and a more pleasant memory for family and friends than seeing me packed off to the Soylent factory.
 
Forget burying me. Leave me out where the crows & coyotes can have a bit...
 
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