Life After Death: America’s Cemeteries Are Rewilding | More burial sites are forgoing pristine lawns for drought resistant plants and wildflowers that help wildlife. Efforts picked up in the pandemic.
Life After Death: America’s Cemeteries Are Rewilding | More burial sites are forgoing pristine lawns for drought resistant plants and wildflowers that help wildlife. Efforts picked up in the pandemic.
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Cemeteries are a waste of space and resources.
There's a deep human need to engage in death-related rituals, and burial is one that's been around for a very very long time. I do not expect to end the use of burial.
We could start making green burial the norm. No formaldehyde, "air tight" (marketing lie) non -biodegradable caskets (cotton, linen or silk sheet will do) with tree, bush or native plant markers.
Sure, but you have to recognize the inherent unsustainable nature.
Funerals are for the living.
You can have a funeral without a cemetery.