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How does that work in the long perspective? At one point it either falls over by itself, or it is chopped down? If it falls over by itself, what is done with it
by mongol 8y ago
How does that work in the long perspective? At one point it either falls over by itself, or it is chopped down? If it falls over by itself, what is done with it then?
- dusted 8y agoIt will not be chopped down. The idea is to plant a forest which is in some form of the word "sacred", a place that is respected, because it is nature reclaimed, or because it is a resting place of the dead. If a tree falls over (some live many hundreds of years), it will rot and take on its natural role in nature as food for fungus and other life. As people die, the forest grows. It shouldn't be maintained, the land should be considered spent, given back. Forests and nature in general managed just fine without human intervention, and indeed, us valiantly putting out forest fires have only made forest fires more dangerous as forests are now denser than they'd have been with natural pruning.
- adrianN 8y agoYou plant two trees, one for the deceased human and one for the dead tree.
- NeedMoreTea 8y agoThe green burial site we've chosen is a lightly managed forest, without the litter of a traditional graveyard - no headstones, urns, monuments and what not. Just an eco friendly burial, with no embalming first, and optionally a small plaque made of local stone. Flowers are allowed, but they must be just a bunch of flowers without wire, foam, vase or plastic wrap. Wreaths are quietly removed a few days after a burial. It just looks like a particularly nice bit of native forest, and in a hundred years they aim that it should still just look like forest. They allow and even encourage picnics, walkers, dog walkers. Surprisingly - well we were - it isn't more expensive than a regular funeral.
- samstave 8y agoWhere is this?
- exhilaration 8y agoYou can google "green burial" or "natural burial" for your state. Here some locations in New Jersey: https://web.njsfda.org/public/decisions/ground-burial/green-burials https://web.njsfda.org/public/decisions/ground-burial/green-...
- chousuke 8y agoPlant a new one? You can maintain a cemetery forest just like a regular one; the dead people aren't going to care, and so long as the forest maintenance is not completely neglected, why would the survivors complain either? It's not like regular tombstones don't erode away with time just like trees would. I don't know about you, but for me even a fallen tree sounds like a more interesting tomb marker than a slab of stone.
- askvictor 8y agoAt many graveyards you now lease a grave for a certain number of years, not in perpetuity. Not really much different to that. No idea what they do with the bodies once the lease is up...
- logfromblammo 8y agoTraditionally, the previous occupant is exhumed and their bones deposited in the ossuary building. I imagine a modern cemetery just quietly trashes the headstone when the lease expires, and re-leases the plot at full price, as though no one had already been buried there. I'm not sure when the gravesite lease for ethical business practice expires.
- nicthesailor 8y agoApparently in Greece they dig the bodies up after three years and put the bones in an ossuary. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-34920068 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-34920068
- nkrisc 8y agoThe long term perspective is that the site remains as natural as possible. People who choose to be buried here probably aren't looking for an eternal monument to their existence, but instead are trying to leave this world with as little trace as possible.