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Green Natural Burial
Posted on 2/23/23 at 8:04 pm
Posted on 2/23/23 at 8:04 pm
Spinoff to the cheapest way to bury someone thread.
Has anyone here dealt with or attended a green/natural burial? I have an uncle that is about to be natural buried in Tennessee. I think its popular in some religions but its new to me. Im surprised its not more popular in todays world.
Basically the burial for my uncle will be no embalming, no casket, no vault, nothing. They are wrapping him in biodegradable sheet and direct burying only about 3' deep for quicker decomposition. We are having a graveside service, which I think will be interesting. They will plant trees over and around him. Instead of a cemetery, it will be a protected natural area/forest.
Has natural burial been a thing here in southern US? Anyone been to a service or know of any established burial forrests?
ETA: This is in a burial plot/forest with other burials, not on someones private property. The family still has to buy a plot.
ETA2: One of the options we were given was for the family to open the grave site and close the gravesite (with shovels). The family decided to hire the labor but some family members are going to throw a few shovel loads to close the grave.
Has anyone here dealt with or attended a green/natural burial? I have an uncle that is about to be natural buried in Tennessee. I think its popular in some religions but its new to me. Im surprised its not more popular in todays world.
Basically the burial for my uncle will be no embalming, no casket, no vault, nothing. They are wrapping him in biodegradable sheet and direct burying only about 3' deep for quicker decomposition. We are having a graveside service, which I think will be interesting. They will plant trees over and around him. Instead of a cemetery, it will be a protected natural area/forest.
Has natural burial been a thing here in southern US? Anyone been to a service or know of any established burial forrests?
ETA: This is in a burial plot/forest with other burials, not on someones private property. The family still has to buy a plot.
ETA2: One of the options we were given was for the family to open the grave site and close the gravesite (with shovels). The family decided to hire the labor but some family members are going to throw a few shovel loads to close the grave.
This post was edited on 2/23/23 at 8:37 pm
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Posted on 2/23/23 at 8:07 pm to AutoYes_Clown
People have been buried this way for thousands of years. Embalming, caskets, and marble headstones are just ways to make the living feel better and enrich the death industry.
Posted on 2/23/23 at 8:10 pm to AutoYes_Clown
That's basically how Pat Dye was buried. He had a nice farm south of Auburn. They wrapped him in a sheet, and put him in the ground near some of the trees he had planted. Among other things, he grew Japanese Maples on his farm.
Posted on 2/23/23 at 8:15 pm to AutoYes_Clown
My brother in law's dad was done this way last year, it was in his will. It was pretty traumatic for his family. For right or wrong, there's something more satisfying for human grief than simply digging a hole on the family farm and dumping grandpa's corpse in it.
Posted on 2/23/23 at 8:16 pm to AutoYes_Clown
The older I get the less shits I give. To be honest every morning I’m surprised my arse wakes up
Posted on 2/23/23 at 8:19 pm to AutoYes_Clown
We had a long time family friend who buried her husband this way. Basically in a forested area across from our Franciscan Monastery 25 miles east of Atlanta
Posted on 2/23/23 at 8:20 pm to AutoYes_Clown
Cemeteries really are lazy as frick. You pay some laborers to dig a hole with a tractor in an open field that has little to no attachment to your loved one. Its basically the equivalent of a Red Roof Inn out by the interstate.
Those guys on Deadliest Catch did it right. Carried their Dad's body up a steep rocky slope over an Alaskan bay where he and they fished their entire adult life. Took them the entire day to dig out an area to bury him with their own labor. They go by often and shoot off fireworks in the area and get drunk and reminisce.
Those guys on Deadliest Catch did it right. Carried their Dad's body up a steep rocky slope over an Alaskan bay where he and they fished their entire adult life. Took them the entire day to dig out an area to bury him with their own labor. They go by often and shoot off fireworks in the area and get drunk and reminisce.
Posted on 2/23/23 at 8:23 pm to SpotCheckBilly
Get it right son. They buried him beneath a clone of the live oak Updyke tried to kill. He wanted his body to nourish that tree. GOAT Auburn man. War Eagle coach!!
Posted on 2/23/23 at 8:27 pm to AutoYes_Clown
My grandpa wanted this
In the day you had to get them in ground quickly
In the day you had to get them in ground quickly
Posted on 2/23/23 at 8:29 pm to deeprig9
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For right or wrong, there's something more satisfying for human grief than simply digging a hole on the family farm and dumping grandpa's corpse in it.
Because we’ve been conditioned to expect a big casket and burial in a graveyard. It’s all crap!
Cremate me and dump me. Once I’m dead, my body is a useless husk. Treat it that way.
Posted on 2/23/23 at 8:30 pm to AutoYes_Clown
Honestly, this option sounds better to me than being buried in a traditional casket or cremated.
Something sort of peaceful about it, to me at least.
Something sort of peaceful about it, to me at least.
Posted on 2/23/23 at 8:33 pm to AutoYes_Clown
No embalming, no casket, no vault, 3' under?
My concern would be animals digging up the remains.
My concern would be animals digging up the remains.
Posted on 2/23/23 at 8:36 pm to ibldprplgld
Think about how many people were buried this way when the wagon trains went west. Mostly woman and children I guess. Hard times. Tough people.
Posted on 2/23/23 at 8:40 pm to boddagetta
Just buried in a shroud naturally. No stealing your eyes or neck bones for cadaver unneccesssry back surgeries. I'm all in.
Posted on 2/23/23 at 8:42 pm to AutoYes_Clown
I want to be buried either in a mushroom suit or in a shallow grave under a fruit tree my family has to eat off of when it matures.
Posted on 2/23/23 at 8:43 pm to AutoYes_Clown
Something gives me the creeps thinking about worms crawling through my skull as I decompose. But I am all for cemating my body and dumping asses underneath a tree
Posted on 2/23/23 at 8:44 pm to CoachChappy
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Because we’ve been conditioned to expect a big casket and burial in a graveyard. It’s all crap!
Cremate me and dump me. Once I’m dead, my body is a useless husk. Treat it that way.
I agree with you on the cremation part. A box of ashes.
When you are talking about a rigormortis full sized dead corpse with flies and yellow jackets flying around it, that's where I have a problem with it, personally. The deceased doesn't care, but the loved ones left behind who are performing the interment, they should certainly deserve some consideration as well.
Posted on 2/23/23 at 8:50 pm to AutoYes_Clown
OP was edited since I replied. My reply post-op edit, those photos are staged as frick. Not real. Fake.
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