"Don’t Be Dead, Dude" (a Pop-Culture Discussion of Dying)

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If you are completely zen in your yogic comfort with death, or, like Shirley MacLaine, think you have a lot more lives to live... well, this whole topic will seem lovely, and Bill's concern (or was it Ted's?) over his friend's potential death would seem silly, as death would simply be this beautiful passing over to a new reality.

If you are like most of the rest of us, however, it's a little easier to make a few jokes and reference film and TV to offset the discomfort of talking about dying.

When it comes down to it, death IS the great equalizer, and we ARE all going to meet that someday, so it is a little bizarre that we just avoid the discussion altogether. I, for one, don't relish the idea of embalming and burial - maybe too many Twilight Zone episodes watching people buried alive trying to escape prison... In the end, I really just don't see a lot of point in the preservation of a body post-mortum (I learn my language from CSI).

I think I'm a cremation girl when it comes down to it. I don't want to be stuck in an urn like Gaylord Focker's grandmother-in-law or naturally buried in a shroud like Nate. I'm thinking ashes tilled into a nice garden in the mountains instead...

-Heather... off to watch some Law and Order: SVU...

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Dude, how do you have time to watch so much TV? I don't even HAVE one. Or much of a life really for that matter. Okay, I am outta here, out to take the Crick for a walk and give the horses some carrots from the garden. (Thank God the previous owner planted a garden before moving out! Not sure I would have had the time.)
This is a comment to the "cremetion-kinda-girl" and to the initial green burial article...i'm cool with cremation and all, but I questions whether that can really be considered a "green" form of burial because of the fumes released into the atmosphere from the crematorium. I mean, why save the earth, but kill the air with the same effort. Just a thought...in the end, whoever it is won't be here to make a stink about it anyway. Ciao.
To: Jen and Heather, RE: Keep the bites coming. Some more info on green burials.... August 16, 2006 Auggie V's CT Green Blog No Industry Left Behind - Death Care Sector Goes Green Even in death, one can be green. I am intrigued at times learning about how corporate sustainability touches on certain industries. I have reported on various companies and industries that have embraced some form of sustainability or in some cases have adopted it into their culture and way of life. And the drivers for them are very clear and make sense. But now comes news that another personal services industry has adopted green principles to help guide the trade group. This would be death preservers or embalmers. Earlier this month Sustainablity Industries Journal reported that The Green Burial Council introduced the nation's first green certification program in the death care industry. In addition to reducing the use of toxic chemicals and non-biodegradable materials in the burial process, the council says its hopeful the approach will bring together cemetery operators and conservation organizations in a common purpose. “Green burial,” which bans the use of embalming, vaults, conventional markers and metal caskets, began taking hold in the U.K. a decade ago, according to the council. But until now, the concept has not included landscape-level conservation. The Santa Fe, N.M.-based council plans to set standards to certify two types of green cemeteries: one for a facility that furthers a legitimate conservation purpose, involves an established nonprofit or government agency that protects the land in perpetuity, and restricts its use with a conservation easement; and one for a facility that also follows environmentally and consumer-friendly procedures but may not further a conservation purpose. This news comes as a Connecticut company recently announced that it will sell space flights for the dead. They will fly your remains around space before you’re buried. I want to know what the motivation is to do this.
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