Eco-Friendly Funeral Practices

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Eternal Reefs: In which your loved ones ashes are mixed into concrete and dropped into the sea

Eternal Reefs

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http://www.emagazine.com/january-february_2002/0102ib_greenburial.html

Interestingly enough a quote from the article says:
...."The reef modules attract small fish within days of deployment and begin sprouting polyps, which turn into hard growth within three months. But Dr. Bill Alevizon, a marine biologist and scientific advisor for the conservation group Reef Relief, wants people to realize that artificial reefs are no substitute for protecting living coral ecosystems. Reef structures placed in the ocean can serve as productive habitat, he contends, but the best way to restore reefs is transplanting live coral colonies, which only live in warm, clear and shallow seas...."

What do you think?

And, do you know of any other eco-friendly practices?

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How COOL!!!

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That's "No way to treat a lady"!

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awesome, but like Ed Abbey, i intend to feed the vultures in the Sonora desert

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dyslexia - gonna wander off and lay down to die when the time comes?

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Yeah..pretty intersting actually, saw this on Discovery last night. Its on one more time in February

http://dsc.discovery.com/schedule/episode.jsp?episode=0&cpi=23750

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What got my interest was surfing through and seeing something akin to the Mutter Musuem that is an exhibit where you can donate your body to be displayed

Body Worlds

You however have no say in how your body will be displayed.

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freaky!

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Quote:

Full Story here:
Texas Cemetery offers Green Burials

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I was just going to wrap them up, wait for a windy day and drop them off the back of Fiddlers Green into the bay.

No muss, no fuss, food for the fish, and where'd they'd want to be anyway.

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Q - that bit about the cemetery being near the lake makes me nervous. i remember hearing about a cemetery in Macon, GA which partially washed away in a flood. Caskets floating down-stream and sticking part-way out of the newly carved river-bank ..... brrr. Anyway, I've always thought it was illegal to do that kind of natural burial.

If I could legally be planted beneath a tree, I'd prefer that over all else.

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Sugar--now, that sounds like a logical and environmentally friendly way to go

I dont think its allowed but, I wont tell anyone if you wont Wink

k...if you read the whole article which has alot of information so, I didnt want to copy the whole thing here...its a large plot of land and its not a casket situation...the only detail they are working out at the moment really is the umm..cover to keep the bodies from rising so..I think you can have your tree Smile

Its also cheap at the moment..how much you can afford to buy it for...NOW THATS an incentive I like.

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wow....

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I want my ashes placed in a hollow cannon ball which is then fired out into the middle of the great lakes. Not only is it eco-friendly, but it's fun for the whole family.

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cjhsa..Ive been just dying to tell this to you for some time

its all about the chicken dance dangit

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So, since you just died, do we get to make up a funeral for you? Wink

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http://homepage.ntlworld.com/jackaram/assets/images/dancChicken.gif

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Okay...one of the options above would work...or you know..i could just live a while longer till someone comes up with something I really like.

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Yeah, we did the 'drop them off the back of a dinghy' with an aunt of mine. About a week later we got a call from the Coast Guard.

"We found your aunt". We'd lodged an application with them for this.

"That's terrible, we thought she would have disappeared by now".

"Nope, got pulled up by some scuba-divers from some deep, cold water. She was covered in lobsters".

"That's really horrible. I'll be round to collect her and make sure she has a proper funeral".

"Could it wait till Saturday?"

"Why?"

"We've got a steak'n'lobster cook-out Sunday, so we put her back in!".

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hey, you know..Sugar may then have a lovely idea for the whole Lobstah Dinnah requirements now that you put it that way MrS

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