Green Burial
By Apita, Bla Bla Blog
Not something too many people think about. But I started taking interest in this after reading a couple books. When I grew up, when a person died, there was no question as to what happened to the body…
The body went to the funeral home, they did their thing, made the body look presentable, people would come look at it, and then the body would be buried the next day. And that is all I knew. Seemed simple enough. Then I heard of cremation. That seemed rather barbaric. Burning a body down to the ashes, and then putting the ashes into a box or urn or possibly scattering them?! I accidently read how the body is prepared during embalming. I was disgusted. OK, so I know it is just a body, a shell, with no soul when they are embalming… but there seems to be no respect for the body what so ever with embalming. I wont go into details, but it is disgusting. It was after reading more about caring for the dead that I discovered “green burials”. No embalming, no fancy casket, no funeral home, and no vault. That is my kind of burial. But there is no place in Indiana that does that, or even would consider that. New York has a place, and so does California. But how on earth are they going to get my dead body out to California before I start to stink? Maybe in 40 years they will have a green burial place here in Indiana. Maybe I could just be buried at my grandmas property… wrap me up in a blanket, take me to the “yellow brick road” and put me in a shallow grave. I just have to make sure the younger generation knows where the “yellow brick road” is.
I, too, want a green burial at my home in Indiana. I just wrote the state health department asking about regulations, but don’t anticipate hearing back what I would like to hear. What can we do to make this possible? There are green burial sites in Wisconsin and South Carolina I think.