I thought this was quite an interesting article; I wasn't at all aware of the "green-burial" movement.  However, no mention was made of cremation as an option.  How does cremation fit into the eco-friendly standards being developed?  Will cremated remains be allowed in Conservation Burial Grounds, or will people have to continue scattering ashes (probably illegally) in beautiful places?  Thanks.

I want to be solar oven dried, chipped up, then composted.   And mixed back into the wilderness soil.

Certify that.  As if it were possible.

This doesn't seem too different from what I understand as a traditional Jewish burial.  One can have an eco-friendly burial without certification.  Perhaps eco-friendly burial is more in the name than in the thing itself.

Cremation uses a lot of natural gas.  

They had a huge solar dish designed in India  for cremation.

How about human biodiesel?

I would personally prefer to be buried at sea.
Ideally there would be a Viking funeral pyre, however even just being sunk in the ocean, unembalmed, of course, would suffice.
I would also think it would be far cheaper than the $1950 being charged for a Green Burial.

eb

No box underground for me, if I can help it.  (Which sounds like an Edgar Allan Poe story, perhaps.)

I love the Parsee concept: sticking the dead high up off the earth, on wooden platforms, for the birds of the air to pick off of.

Or, even more simply, to leave the dead between high tide mark and low tide mark, on a beach well-visited by crustaceans and birds.

Welcome back!

I've always preferred the Viking-esque funeral pyre myself... not particulary eco-conscious I suppose, but it appeals to the drama queen in me. (Plus, I have a very Poe-inspired horror of being buried).  

I envision my friends & family gathered about the bonfire, toasting marshmallows (and imbibing some REALLY good wine) in my honor.

Perhaps if we used only salvaged dead-wood from the forest? Compressed wood chips for cleaner burning?  Recaptured all the heat and funneled into a giant hottub for my funeral attendees to enjoy??

Ah, how I will hate to miss that party.

Kaela

I think the solar/wind powered  drying before combustion would make the whole process very energy efficient.  And using wood that would otherwise cause a more severe forest fire.

I like it.  But I would insist on being incinerated over a sweat lodge fire used for heating rocks on the shore of the BIG lake.

Then the proper prayers could be offered up in the sweat.  Join the great spirit on the wind over Gitchegumee.

Ditto.  Welcome back Canis!  You have been missed!