Green Burial

Tuesday, January 8, 2008

As people attach more and more importance to the concept of a sustainable environment, more are embracing “green” burials, with Taipei recording 630 such burials so far, funeral operators said yesterday.
The operators said the “green,” or natural burial, ensures that the burial site remains as natural as possible. Currently, there are three forms of such burials — burying urns of ashes under trees, sprinkling ashes around a park and sprinkling ashes at sea.
A green burial is very simple; it consists of a biodegradable casket and environmentally safe embalming fluid. Another option is to be buried without a casket, and without embalming fluid.
The cost of a traditional burial is between $6000 and $7000 dollars. The average cost for a green burial is approx. $2500 dollars, more than a fifty percent drop in cost.

It is so disappointing that I cant get some images to be posted here regarding green burial.
But the whole concept is very clear that Green burial is to reduce the use of wood coffin or metal casket.
Green burial is to burying the ashes or spread the ashes to ocean. Another way is to use a biodegradable casket to bury the body.

p/s: Cremation is a term that means burn a dead body into ashes.