Posts Tagged ‘green burial’
Plain or Fancy?
4, Jul 2010Seems like funerals or memorial services are either getting simpler or more complex these days. Green burials and simple home rituals are gaining momentum, but so are high end funeral extravaganzas that spare no expense. In an article that appeared in yesterday’s U.K.-based Independent newspaper, “the rise of the distinctly unconventional celebrity send-off is proof [...]
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 [...]
- By: John
- In: Cremation|Death + the Law
- Tags: cremains, green burial, religion, video
Burial Goes Vertical
8, Dec 2009Aussie 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 [...]
- 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 [...]
- By: John
- In: Burial|Death + Biology|Eco-Death
- Tags: coffins, decomposition, green burial
Save a Mango Tree: Incinerate Amma in Cow Dung
29, Sep 2009Cow 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 [...]
- By: Meg Holle
- In: Cremation|Death Ethics|Eco-Death
- Tags: green burial