Comments on: A Plain Pine Box: http://www.naturalburial.coop/2007/09/30/a-plain-pine-box/ Tue, 22 May 2012 07:37:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.2 By: HarBeK http://www.naturalburial.coop/2007/09/30/a-plain-pine-box/#comment-518 HarBeK Tue, 07 Apr 2009 18:11:15 +0000 http://www.naturalburial.coop/2007/09/30/a-plain-pine-box/#comment-518 Finally, somewhere, someone is literally considering exactly what impact deceased remains have on our environment. "Dust-to-dust, ashes to ashes" just hasn't seemed possible with burial 'requirements' currently in place. People buried the 'common' way, ie embalming, viewing, expensive casket, etc... appear to still be 'around' as far as their 'bones' are concerned. In time, the 'normal method' of burying a loved one will eventually lead to all land mass filled with caskets containing bones instead of earth. Somehow, this just doesn't seem natural. The last time they 're-opened' Lincoln's grave, they stated he looked; "the same as he did in life". Cement walls, steel cages.... do the bones ever disintegrate? Cremation appears to offer the better level of returning one's body to the earth, since mostly what is left is 'ashes'. Natural burial is for me, and a far better method than generally sought after today. It's not the expense per se, it's more matter of environmental impact. How many graves exist from back when where no method of marker remains across the vast stretches of this land? Most were buried where they died, and most probable, without the pine box. Finally, somewhere, someone is literally
considering exactly what impact deceased
remains have on our environment.

“Dust-to-dust, ashes to ashes” just
hasn’t seemed possible with burial
‘requirements’ currently in place.

People buried the ‘common’ way, ie
embalming, viewing, expensive casket,
etc… appear to still be ‘around’ as
far as their ‘bones’ are concerned.

In time, the ‘normal method’ of burying a loved one will eventually
lead to all land mass filled with
caskets containing bones instead of
earth. Somehow, this just doesn’t
seem natural.

The last time they ‘re-opened’ Lincoln’s grave, they stated he
looked; “the same as he did in life”.

Cement walls, steel cages…. do the
bones ever disintegrate? Cremation
appears to offer the better level of
returning one’s body to the earth,
since mostly what is left is ‘ashes’.

Natural burial is for me, and a far
better method than generally sought
after today. It’s not the expense
per se, it’s more matter of environmental
impact.

How many graves exist from back when
where no method of marker remains across
the vast stretches of this land?

Most were buried where they died, and
most probable, without the pine box.

]]> By: Francis Riger http://www.naturalburial.coop/2007/09/30/a-plain-pine-box/#comment-515 Francis Riger Tue, 31 Mar 2009 02:45:06 +0000 http://www.naturalburial.coop/2007/09/30/a-plain-pine-box/#comment-515 I like what I have read and I intend to read more tomorrow. Is this a weekly or monthly page? Its late now but I will read more tomorrow. Thanks for this web site. It seems that the American way is all about the money. Someone is always trying to make a buck on someone else. We need sites like this to keep our loved ones from being raped at a vunerable time. Francis Riger 5611 Burdette Lane Newburgh, IN 47630 I like what I have read and I intend to read more tomorrow. Is this a weekly or monthly page? Its late now but I will read more tomorrow. Thanks for this web site. It seems that the American way is all about the money. Someone is always trying to make a buck on someone else. We need sites like this to keep our loved ones from being raped at a vunerable time.

Francis Riger
5611 Burdette Lane
Newburgh, IN 47630

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