http://www.naturalburial.coop/2006/03/14/wild-cemetaries-give-back-to-the-living/ Thu, 17 May 2012 09:01:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.2 http://www.naturalburial.coop/2006/03/14/wild-cemetaries-give-back-to-the-living/#comment-303 Glynn Harmon Sat, 10 May 2008 17:57:26 +0000 http://www.naturalburial.coop/2006/03/14/wild-cemetaries-give-back-to-the-living/#comment-303 The first of March of this year we buried our 40 year old son. It was an unexpected death but thank goodness we had taken out insurance on him years ago. We have spent about $12,000 for a regular, funeral, casket and grave site. This includes all the things that repulsed us in the end. It includes embalming (I still cannot watch a CSI television show), a metal casket that will probably last forever, (I hate to think what is happening inside that casket), a cememt vault to keep the lawn mowers from crushing said casket. What a waste of land, environment resources, money and memories. I would like to think of my sons body actually going back to whence it came, namely the earth, but all I can think of is what is happening inside the casket. My son's spirit is not there and I can't bring myself to even visit the gravesite, not for grief but because of what we endured. I am searching for a green burial for myself and my husband, somewhere near Denver. For millenia of time people buried their loved ones naturally. Was it only greed that brought us to where we are today? The first of March of this year we buried our 40 year old son. It was an unexpected death but thank goodness we had taken out insurance on him years ago. We have spent about $12,000 for a regular, funeral, casket and grave site. This includes all the things that repulsed us in the end. It includes embalming (I still cannot watch a CSI television show), a metal casket that will probably last forever, (I hate to think what is happening inside that casket), a cememt vault to keep the lawn mowers from crushing said casket. What a waste of land, environment resources, money and memories. I would like to think of my sons body actually going back to whence it came, namely the earth, but all I can think of is what is happening inside the casket. My son’s spirit is not there and I can’t bring myself to even visit the gravesite, not for grief but because of what we endured. I am searching for a green burial for myself and my husband, somewhere near Denver. For millenia of time people buried their loved ones naturally. Was it only greed that brought us to where we are today?

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