'Green' burials are the latest option (just in time for Earth Day)

St. Louis Post-Dispatch ^ | 04/22/2009 | Kim McGuire

[goldfinch]

“Why is it better to let ants, roaches, worms, maggots, and bacteria eat your body than dogs and raccoons?”

If Fido dragged my shinbone back to the farmhouse, it would cause my family some emotional distress...besides being somewhat unsanitary. If I were to die undiscovered in the wilderness, it would make no difference whatsoever.

[goldfinch]

Honey, if you get buried on your property in a canvas shroud, that's what will happen. Then instead of giving your body back to the trees directly, animals will dig you up, eat your body, then poop. That poop will then go "back to the trees".

Nonsense. Generations of my family have buried our beloved family pets on our ranch. We wrap them in a sheet and dig a deep hole. The coyotes haven't dug any up yet...and we have lots of coyotes.

[dirtboy]

I’m going to have my ashes sprinkled on the breakfast bar at Denny’s.

Heck, have your remains made into sausage. That probably would be an improvement over the current dodgers infesting the Grand Slam plates at Denny's...

[sasquatch]

I’ve got the backhoe but I ‘spect you’ll out live me...

[Rebelbase]

I want to be either torched or buried in a pine box.

NC law requires the casket to be inside a concrete vault in the ground. There can be no leaking of body fluids into the soil.

[Rebelbase]

Oh, forgot to add, If I’m going to be embalmed I’d like it to be with either corn liquor or a fine rum.

[Carry_Okie]

NC law requires the casket to be inside a concrete vault in the ground. There can be no leaking of body fluids into the soil.

Wrap me in chicken-wire and shoot it with gunite. I ain't leaving.

[puppypusher]

According to the Envirowacko religion, it's a mortal sin to bury garbage, because something in the trash might leach/migrate. But it's super-neato to bury DECOMPOSING BODIES so they can join the food chain?

Join the food chain.How about polluting the ground water that you maybe drinking if you own a well.Imagine that having the preservatives leeching into what your drinking.

Granted today,there is really No need to preserve the deceased if the burial will be in a day or two.

[Rebelbase]

“Wrap me in chicken-wire and shoot it with gunite. I ain’t leaving.”

Draw up a business plan, sounds like a winner!

[metmom]

Good Lord. Some people have way too much time on their hands for them to be able to think up stuff like this.

[hiredhand]

I feel exactly the same way. Like hell should my county government force my family to fatten a crooked funeral monopoly. Rent a backhoe, dig a ditch, and bury me (just make sure I'm dead first :-). Let my body feed my land; I love it with my life.

I'll have to say that I agree with you. Make sure my weapons and useful "stuff" go to the right people, and "fertilize the garden with me!" (so to speak).

The funeral industry is a LOT like the meat processing industry here. You never know if what you're getting back is complete, or even all of what you left them with!

[pandoraou812]

My mother used to say cremate me & put me in a hole & plant an apple tree. Some day you can sit & eat an apple & think of me. I thought she was strange & she didn’t get her wish. I have no room for anymore trees.

[MEGoody]

Calm down. I was just making fun of the leftist loon.