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elleng

(139,456 posts) Thu Mar 22, 2018, 11:12 AM Mar 2018

Thinking About Having a Green Funeral? Heres What to Know

I am.

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 OP

I thought that the law demands concret and sealed coffins question everything Mar 2018 #1

Such helpful information, dixiegrrrrl Mar 2018 #2

I'm going the cremation route lillypaddle Mar 2018 #3

My husband did, and rests in a niche. elleng Mar 2018 #4

I totally get it. lillypaddle Mar 2018 #5

question everything

(50,259 posts)

1. I thought that the law demands concret and sealed coffins

Reply to elleng (Original post)

Thu Mar 22, 2018, 01:47 PM

Mar 2018

Interesting comment about cremation, which is what we have been thinking.

dixiegrrrrl

(60,040 posts)

2. Such helpful information,

Reply to elleng (Original post)

Thu Mar 22, 2018, 01:55 PM

Mar 2018

Thank you, elleng.

lillypaddle

(9,605 posts)

3. I'm going the cremation route

Reply to elleng (Original post)

Thu Mar 22, 2018, 02:57 PM

Mar 2018

About $700 and it's a done deal - no expensive coffin, no burial plot or headstone to buy.

elleng

(139,456 posts)

4. My husband did, and rests in a niche.

Reply to lillypaddle (Reply #3)

Thu Mar 22, 2018, 03:58 PM

Mar 2018

Not my kind of thing; I'd rather be pushing up daisies somewhere.

lillypaddle

(9,605 posts)

5. I totally get it.

Reply to elleng (Reply #4)

Thu Mar 22, 2018, 09:31 PM

Mar 2018

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