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A 5 page overview of an alternative burial practice. This paper explores green burials by contrasting them with the economic and ecological impacts of embalmment. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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in most circles. Never-the-less, death is indeed certain. So too is the fact that our bodies must be dealt with once life is exhausted. Our alternatives for
doing this are quite limited in some respects. We can be cremated, entombed in a mausoleum or buried. Unfortunately, the specifics of our final rest are now in
most cases determined by government and big business rather than by us or our family members. One alternative, however, is slowly emerging in contemporary culture that once again puts
most of the decision making regarding the handling of our bodies back into our hands. That alternative is green burials. The evolution of green burials is a step back
into our past, a step back into the time when death was regarded both with more personal respect and with more personal sensitivity.
Our attitudes about death have changed considerably over the last century. This change is associated with a number of factors, the most prominent being our transition to a more
secular society and the advancements in medical technology. Consequently death has become less of a personal and spiritual topic and more of a clinical phenomena, a phenomena for which
there is little involvement either of the person dying or of that persons family and acquaintances. Fortunately the swinging pendulum which gauges the way we view death is beginning
to once again move toward the perception of death from a spiritual and personal perspective. Green burials are a reflection of that swinging pendulum.
Green burials entail burying a person without embalmment, without the chemical and physical intrusion of an outsider into our bodies for the expressed purpose of preservation. Once
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