Michigan Officials Tried To Stop a 'Green' Cemetery. They Just Lost in Court.

Reason ^ | 8.16.2024 | Joe Lancaster

[Larry Lucido]

Great story!

[antidemoncrat]

I thought that when you bury someone six foot deep the scavenger animals would then not attempt to dig it up.

[Robert A Cook PE]

Well, yes. Worm food for the “bag of meat” (no soul!) This what today’s liberals want, feel, desire, seek or see as “man’s despicable future- better cursed worm food than living.

They really do see “Man” as a curse against Nature (Gaia is their god); and see man as the “most deadly creature on earth” who must be killed off.

(Well, the 2% elites who fly into the Davos ski resorts can continue to live of course.)

[Albion Wilde]

Bodies are mostly water, and after death with no preservatives, they rot like last month’s cabbage in the back of the refrigerator. If not contained securely, body fluids seep into the soil. Rain drives decomposing flesh deeper and deeper.

[TalBlack]

“and the burial sites would be marked by natural landmarks like rocks or native trees. “

Then they won’t be marked at all. Unless this cemetery is incredibly and unusually well tended the graves will be indistinguishable from the non burial areas very very quickly. If they don’t sink a 3”x3’ concrete form and fill it with hi grade concrete forget finding your loved ones grave after a few years. But even then you’re gonna lose the concrete even if you left it sticking up by five inches.

[BansheeBill]

One of the problems with burials using simple wooden caskets is that over time the wood rots and the soil that was over the caskets collapses. You are left with dangerous holes that need regular refilling

[telescope115]

I’d say the Egyptians had the right idea. Mummify everybody.

[OneVike]

I want to be entombed inside a bronze statue that looks just like me. And have it place in the front yard as if I am waving at everyone passing by.

Then when some idiots in the far future want to topple it over and it breaks open, they will be freaked out by my dead corpse.

[where's_the_Outrage?]

Whenever I see an article about “Green” my initial reaction is to discount it. However, this makes a lot of sense to me.

My dad was a licensed mortician, when he died (in a nursing home) we had a funeral home pick up his body in a few hours and he was soon cremated. No embalming required. Also we had no funeral, just a hosted get together in a private room at his favorite restaurant. Less than $2K in expenses for all. I think my dad nailed it. Hard to believe we were usually in opposition to each other, as he once said to me “You and I don’t agree on much.”

To me all the casket, flowers, formal viewings, etc. are just a waste of money. Unless that is what the deceased wanted and provided the funds to do it.

[FreedomNotSafety]

Who would oppose? All those making money on the current overpriced emotionally hyped funeral/burial business.

I just buried the remains of a relative. They weren’t loved but I wanted to be decent about it but cheap. Cremation, urn, burial at a family plot, flat marker, pastor at grave side. All in $1,500.