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For a small price, we can all donate our remains such that they feed a growing tree: https://www.thelivingurn.com/ https://www.thelivingurn.com/

miles 8y ago
Why the intermediate step of cremation? https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/22/smarter-living/green-funeral-burial-environment.html https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/22/smarter-living/green-fune... > Here is what Americans put in the ground each year through traditional burials: 20 million feet of wood, 4.3 million gallons of embalming fluids, 1.6 million tons of reinforced concrete, 17,000 tons of copper and bronze, and 64,500 tons of steel, according to the Green Burial Council. > Green burials eliminate much of this waste by leaving out almost all of those materials; most bodies are simply wrapped in shrouds made from a biodegradable material like cotton and placed in the ground. And although cremations often have the reputation as being an eco-friendly option, they tend to have an outsize carbon footprint. The article goes on to mention http://www.letyourlovegrow.com/ http://www.letyourlovegrow.com/ , which sounds similar to The Living Urn, and http://www.eternalreefs.com/ http://www.eternalreefs.com/ , "which hold cremated remains in an underwater cement ball and create new marine habitats for fish and other sea life."
- AtlasLion 8y ago
  This is exactly how Islamic burial works.
  - rsynnott 8y ago
    Also Jewish burial. And embalming and so on wasn't particularly common in majority-Christian countries until the 19th or 20th centuries, either (though I think coffins were).
dorfsmay 8y ago
Why do they use cremated bodies? Doesn't cremating have an impact on the environment? And doesn't it destroy a lot of the nutrient from the body? Been looking for something similar, but where they just use the body as is.
- gothroach 8y ago
  I wish that promession had come to market. The process was supposed to involve freeze drying your remains and then mechanically disintigrating them via vibration. The resulting powder could then be relatively quickly re-integrated by the environment after it was buried or spread on the surface. The idea really appealed to me, but as I recall the company never got funding to build their first facility.
- darkerside 8y ago
  https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18052182 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18052182

miles 8y ago

Why the intermediate step of cremation? https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/22/smarter-living/green-funeral-burial-environment.html https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/22/smarter-living/green-fune... > Here is what Americans put in the ground each year through traditional burials: 20 million feet of wood, 4.3 million gallons of embalming fluids, 1.6 million tons of reinforced concrete, 17,000 tons of copper and bronze, and 64,500 tons of steel, according to the Green Burial Council. > Green burials eliminate much of this waste by leaving out almost all of those materials; most bodies are simply wrapped in shrouds made from a biodegradable material like cotton and placed in the ground. And although cremations often have the reputation as being an eco-friendly option, they tend to have an outsize carbon footprint. The article goes on to mention http://www.letyourlovegrow.com/ http://www.letyourlovegrow.com/ , which sounds similar to The Living Urn, and http://www.eternalreefs.com/ http://www.eternalreefs.com/ , "which hold cremated remains in an underwater cement ball and create new marine habitats for fish and other sea life."

AtlasLion 8y ago
This is exactly how Islamic burial works.
- rsynnott 8y ago
  Also Jewish burial. And embalming and so on wasn't particularly common in majority-Christian countries until the 19th or 20th centuries, either (though I think coffins were).

dorfsmay 8y ago

Why do they use cremated bodies? Doesn't cremating have an impact on the environment? And doesn't it destroy a lot of the nutrient from the body? Been looking for something similar, but where they just use the body as is.

gothroach 8y ago
I wish that promession had come to market. The process was supposed to involve freeze drying your remains and then mechanically disintigrating them via vibration. The resulting powder could then be relatively quickly re-integrated by the environment after it was buried or spread on the surface. The idea really appealed to me, but as I recall the company never got funding to build their first facility.
darkerside 8y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18052182 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18052182