Along with the rise in cremation (over 50%), Green Burials are exploding in popularity:

• Rapid acceptance and utilization among Baby Boomers & younger generations.

• And a Green Burial requires neither embalming, nor an expensive casket, thus eliminating the need for a traditional Funeral Director. 

Remember: whatever you choose to do, the Human Body is 73.8% Water so it’s not going to last long regardless.

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Green Burial

• What is it? A body unembalmed either placed in a biodegradable casket or a simple shroud and then buried in the grounds of a memorial nature park. 

A Simple Shroud

Biodegradable Caskets

• Wicker Basket
• Pine, Bamboo, Cardboard, Willow, Cypress, Eucalyptus

Rise in Natural Parks. Memorial Ecosystems.

• Ramsey Creek Preserve in South Carolina – one of the first.

• Joshua Tree now has a natural burial section. 

• Other Preserves across the country:
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Other Environmentally Friendly Options

The options are enormous:

• If cremated: Ashes scattered somewhere? Where? 

• Organ Donation

• 100,000 people on waiting list for hearts, livers & kidneys. 
• Full Body Donation to science. 

• Companies offering: Science Care, Medcure, BioGift
• Medical Students need bodies
  • Become a Crash Test Dummy
  • Army Ballistics Unit

• Ecopod & Acorn Urn – both made of recycled paper

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• Bios Urn, Roots Tree & Capsula Mundi (become a tree)

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• Infinity Burial Suit – MIT designed mushroom spore suit

• Urban Death Project (now Recompose) & FOREST
  • Composting corpses

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