Green Burial: Like Composting Food Waste, and Your Body is the Food.

This post might creep some of you out. But with Halloween coming, the members of the Green Moms Carnival decided to do something a little macabre and write about green funerals. I’m okay with that. While it’s hard to talk about death and what happens to us after we die, I do find myself thinking about it a lot as I’m walking home from BART late at night, glancing around furtively to make sure no one’s following me. Will this be my last walk home? What haven’t I finished? Have I done enough so far? And what will happen to this body I carry around once I’m not in control of it anymore? I don’t want my final act to contradict my life’s work.
Traditional Cemetery = Landfill
By equating a cemetery with a landfill, I’m not trying to be disrespectful here. All my friends and family who have passed on are buried in traditional cemeteries. But as in a landfill where organic matter like food scraps, yard… Read the rest