No Green Cemetery Nearby?
You can modify a simple burial to make it as green as possible by not embalming and using a shroud or a biodegradable wood or cardboard casket. Try to find a cemetery that doesn’t require a vault, but if you must, ask that the lid be discarded and the box flipped over so that the body can return to the earth. For More Information: Green Burial Council The Centre for Natural Burial Grave Matters: A Journey Through the Modern Funeral Industry to a Natural Way of Burial, by Mark Harris (Scribner 2008) Thank you to Marcy Klein of the FCA of Greater Rochester for the original text.
