Posts Tagged ‘green burial’
UK Hindu Man is Burning Down the House
12, Feb 2010Hindu Wins Northumberland Funeral Pyre Battle
BBC News (February 10, 2010)
Hindu Man Wins Court Battle for Open-Air Cremation Pyre
Matthew Taylor The Guardian (February 10, 2010)
It has been a big week for cremation in the UK. On Wednesday, Davender Ghai, a 71-year old Hindu man from Newcastle won a landmark court case on Appeal. The Ghai case [...]
- By: John
- In: Cremation| Death + the Law
- Tags: cremains, green burial, religion, video
Burial Goes Vertical
8, Dec 2009 Aussie Undertakers Turn Funeral Business on Its Head… by Offering to Bury People Upright
Foreign News Service, Daily Mail Online (December 7, 2009)
Just when you thought there were enough options for final disposition, a company in Melbourne, Australia, invents a trolley that will cart around a corpse then deposit it vertically with minimal blunder into [...]
- By: Meg Holle
- In: Burial| Eco-Death
- Tags: green burial, vertical burial
How Dead Bodies Become Beetle Juice
10, Oct 2009To Casket Or Not To Casket? One Of America’s Great Field Biologists Thinks About Burial
Robert Krulwich, NPR (October 9, 2009)
NPR science reporter Robert Krulwich (also of RadioLab fame) did this short piece (it’s a little over five minutes long) on the decomposition of dead animal bodies and their consumption by beetles. He interviews Professor Bernd [...]
- By: John
- In: Burial| Death + Biology| Eco-Death
- Tags: coffins, decomposition, green burial
Save a Mango Tree: Incinerate Amma in Cow Dung
29, Sep 2009 Cow Dung Cremations Catch On in Bihar
Amarnath Tewary, BBC News (September 27, 2009)
Ongoing floods and a subsequent depletion of mango trees, the traditional cremation fuel for the people of Bihar, India, has led to the use of cow dung in funeral pyres. Readily available and culturally acceptable (coming from a sacred animal, and all), [...]
- By: Meg Holle
- In: Cremation| Death Ethics| Eco-Death
- Tags: green burial
Reduce – Reuse – Recycle – the Dead…
13, Aug 2009Body Heat
The Economist (August 6, 2009)
Let us all say it together: Reduce – Reuse – Recycle. Now add: Dead bodies. It’s true. Shocking, but true.
A strong case can be made that organ donation, for example, is the noblest form of cadaveric recycling and that the reuse of human organs and tissues to extend life [...]
- By: John
- In: Cremation| Death + Technology| Death Ethics| Eco-Death
- Tags: bioethics, cremains, green burial