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Why dad's eco-funeral went horribly wrong
Daily Mail ^
| 8th June 2006
| CLAIRE WALLERSTEIN
Posted on 06/30/2006 4:41:30 PM PDT by robowombat
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To: Northern Yankee
Looks to me as if there's a real business opportunity here for conservative entreprenuers {Is there any other kind? to provide a good service for green funerals.
This actually sounds like the funeral business -- If it was run by the government.
To: robowombat; Slings and Arrows
Not only would it avoid rare tropical hardwoods being felled and carted halfway around the world Hey.. I work with tropical hardwoods!!
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posted on
07/01/2006 6:49:35 AM PDT
by
Irish_Thatcherite
(A vote for Bertie Ahern is a vote for Gerry Adams!|The IRA are actually terrorists, any questions?)
To: robowombat
If cardboard's not your style, you could be buried in a bamboo casket, a moss-lined woven willow nest or even a sack. I really don't mind the idea of a cloth burial shroud. I mean, it seems like a waste to saddle my family with the $5,000-$10,000 expense of a fine wood casket that will rot away in the ground. Digging a hole, tossing me in and planting a tree really doesn't sound like that bad of an idea.
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posted on
07/01/2006 7:02:41 AM PDT
by
Drew68
To: HairOfTheDog
I'm sure I'm going to hell for laughing at Claire's pain.
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posted on
07/01/2006 7:07:51 AM PDT
by
Xenalyte
(I want you to remember this face. This is the guy behind the guy behind the guy.)
To: Slings and Arrows
My hand to God, I did not read your ping before I posted that.
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posted on
07/01/2006 7:08:28 AM PDT
by
Xenalyte
(I want you to remember this face. This is the guy behind the guy behind the guy.)
To: Irish_Thatcherite
What do you do with 'em? Flooring?
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posted on
07/01/2006 7:08:48 AM PDT
by
Xenalyte
(I want you to remember this face. This is the guy behind the guy behind the guy.)
To: Xenalyte
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posted on
07/01/2006 7:14:39 AM PDT
by
Irish_Thatcherite
(A vote for Bertie Ahern is a vote for Gerry Adams!|The IRA are actually terrorists, any questions?)
To: Irish_Thatcherite
Oh, how gorgeous they must be!
The one step that will make almost any home lovelier by half is to install hardwood floors or stairs. Homes can't help but be improved.
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posted on
07/01/2006 7:16:29 AM PDT
by
Xenalyte
(I want you to remember this face. This is the guy behind the guy behind the guy.)
To: Xenalyte
I'll keep you company there :~)
To: Xenalyte
True - I referred to the mention of tropical hardwoods in the article, but hardwoods stairs are mainly white oak at the moment.
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posted on
07/01/2006 7:31:48 AM PDT
by
Irish_Thatcherite
(A vote for Bertie Ahern is a vote for Gerry Adams!|The IRA are actually terrorists, any questions?)
To: HairOfTheDog
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posted on
07/01/2006 8:13:13 AM PDT
by
Abathar
(Proudly catching hell for posting without reading the article since 2004)
To: Xenalyte
To: Irish_Thatcherite
Hey.. I work with tropical hardwoods!! This is about the only part of this I agree with.
Pine box works fine, save the tropical hardwoods for pianos. (And desks, and sideboards and flooring and chairs and decks and....)
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posted on
07/01/2006 11:03:00 AM PDT
by
Harmless Teddy Bear
(The bottom 60% does 40% of the work, the top 40% does 60% of the work. Just who are the "workers"?)
To: Harmless Teddy Bear
Yeah.. I was thinking that... why cardboard? Why couldn't he have used pine?
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posted on
07/01/2006 11:28:31 AM PDT
by
Irish_Thatcherite
(A vote for Bertie Ahern is a vote for Gerry Adams!|The IRA are actually terrorists, any questions?)
To: robowombat
I intend to be ground into dust and incinerated by the SWAT team's bulldozer and tank-mounted flamethrower.
To: robowombat
I don't much care what my husband decides to do with me after I depart.
Maybe he could have me cremated and scattered from a private plane over Safeco Field or something.
While the Mariners are out of town, of course. Batter up!
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posted on
07/01/2006 7:30:28 PM PDT
by
Not A Snowbird
(Official RKBA Landscaper and Arborist, Duchess of Green Leafy Things)
To: elkfersupper
I presume this will be after you go down in glory defending your home from GI Invaders.
I must learn to not read your posts while taking a drink.
To: SmithL
How much would it have cost to rent a wood chipper for an hour or so?
Heh!
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posted on
07/01/2006 10:49:15 PM PDT
by
RandallFlagg
(Roll your own cigarettes! You'll save $$$ and smoke less!(Magnetic bumper stickers-click my name)
To: managusta
We can also offer the classic rolled up carpet,the individually separated ziplock bags and our most popular the 100% re-cyclable crushed car block. ROFLOL!!!
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posted on
07/01/2006 11:09:40 PM PDT
by
Humidston
(Congress is like the Mafia - NO PAY, NO PLAY.)
To: robowombat
Another thing we all liked about green burials was that, instead of an impersonal marble headstone, a tree would be planted on my dad's grave While I'm not particularly keen on marble (granite and bronze both seem like better materials), I don't see how a carved or cast marker is more impersonal than a tree. Not that there's anything wrong with trees, but markers do serve a real purpose.
BTW, I think embalming is a scam, and if the government weren't in the funeral industry's pocket it would be possible to have viewings of refrigerated caskets without need for embalming.
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posted on
07/02/2006 12:16:42 AM PDT
by
supercat
(Sony delenda est.)
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