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Related: About this forumThinking About Having a Green Funeral? Heres What to Know
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https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/22/smarter-living/green-funeral-burial-environment.html?
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Thinking About Having a Green Funeral? Heres What to Know (Original Post)
elleng
Mar 2018
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(49,107 posts)1. I thought that the law demands concret and sealed coffins
Interesting comment about cremation, which is what we have been thinking.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,011 posts)2. Such helpful information,
Thank you, elleng.
lillypaddle
(9,605 posts)3. I'm going the cremation route
About $700 and it's a done deal - no expensive coffin, no burial plot or headstone to buy.
elleng
(136,880 posts)4. My husband did, and rests in a niche.
Not my kind of thing; I'd rather be pushing up daisies somewhere.
lillypaddle
(9,605 posts)5. I totally get it.