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Green Funerals Make for Eco-Exits

20 April 2008 14 views 2 CommentsPrint This Post Print This Post Email This Post Email This Post
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In something I never thought I’d see in my lifetime, funeral homes are now offering eco-friendly burials complete with cardboard coffins, natural fiber dress and a burial in a natural setting. Tombstones are also frowned upon because of the carbon emitted from mining the marble. This is just sad.

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  • Dylan McGuire said:

    What’s more sad:
    a) Putting someone in a cardboard box to bury them? or b) Shelling out $10000 for a fancy wood box just so you can bury it in the ground?

    “Green” is just a marketing campaign. Stupidity is apparently pretty common.

  • Skeptics Global Warming | Global Warming Week-in-Review 4/27/2008 said:

    [...] Sunday we learned about new eco-funerals complete with natural fiber clothing and cardboard coffins.  The bad thing is that, just like [...]

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