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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: robowombat


It ain't easy bein' green!
41 posted on 07/02/2006 3:28:53 AM PDT by Rastus
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To: HairOfTheDog
We buried my mother's ashes ourselves, and we brought our own shovel to plant the tree. Because the cemetery is an unmanaged one, we went ourselves to water the tree if it needed water.

If you're just burying ashes, why bother with a cemetary? Find a state or national forest, dig a hole, plant the tree, you're done.

42 posted on 07/02/2006 7:00:58 AM PDT by SauronOfMordor (A planned society is most appealing to those with the arrogance to think they will be the planners)
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To: SauronOfMordor

We wanted a marker there next to her parents, and next to where I will be. We have family plots there, everyone gets their name on a piece of granite somewhere, to prove they were here. As long as we're burying urns, we can fit a lot more of us in our plot :~D


43 posted on 07/02/2006 7:07:24 AM PDT by HairOfTheDog
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To: robowombat
whereupon a terrible realisation dawned; none of us could remember where my father was buried.

Hmmm.. They should have considered Geocaching the grave site.

44 posted on 07/02/2006 7:17:22 AM PDT by csvset ("It was like the hand of G_d slapping down and smashing everything." ~ JDAM strikes Taliban)
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To: Northern Yankee

No, it's a lifestyle.

Or deathstyle.


45 posted on 07/02/2006 1:43:49 PM PDT by stands2reason (ANAGRAM for the day: Socialist twaddle == Tact is disallowed)
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To: stands2reason
LOL...

I remember a colleague of mine years ago decried Earth Day because he felt it was becoming a religion to many.

I used to think he was kidding... now I am more convinced that he wasn't.

46 posted on 07/02/2006 1:46:06 PM PDT by Northern Yankee ( Stay The Course!)
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To: stands2reason

I think it's a good idea to bury radical greens this way.

The less evidence of their existence the better...

;-)


47 posted on 07/03/2006 7:48:39 AM PDT by EternalVigilance
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To: csvset

Love the geocaching idea.

Dear Cacher, Left Uncle Jeff, Took Your Aunt Sue, et al. Left chicken bone travel bug! LOL


48 posted on 07/03/2009 6:59:16 PM PDT by jaqcp (New spin on trading geo-swag)
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