us where for some people saving the planet as a matter of life or death. and i'm sorry she read on a strategy is great barrier reef with the tide is turning against rl killing start.

on on the range of what a high and we have a twenty gauge stee. then in eighteen gauge steel a sixteen gauge steel. stainless steel. and then at the very top you have a broe and coer. ck what you want on your hamburger in america. which which casket to look like. so there's a lot of option. we just try to offer as many as you can would we be able to lift it unite -- gonna muscles. it is not. known in his. death can be a messy business by the time most of us die we will of accumulated toxins and heavy metals into a which if we automated get released directly into the atmosphere. and it's not just these direct

environmental impacts that we have to worry about in america alone two million caskets obeyed every year. along with one point six million tons of cement and enough metal to build the golden gate bridge. i'm a severe to massachusetts to meet an environmental group put charting a green away to the great here after. gallons of toxic embalming fluid such as from mild hated used per person. with conventional symmetries hosting a thousand bodies per acre. the scene ends up and can see into the groundwater. when col from the green burial committee want things to change? what you have really heris a landfill? you have a toxic waste landfill it's not a pleasant thing. alongsid in bombing in the usa coffins a sayn a concrete liners called a vote you can see the side of the vault.

the cement side [inaudible] so. the top collapsed. so the lger the the void in underground the larger the vaul. the more soil falls down into i. if you know anything about soil and and that's what i've studied my wle life. so is a composite of all of the light that has occurred on that place. over thousands of years. and in a natural burial were really part of that system you would be. recycled and you would live again. you know that's really. a great concept. that instead of being burd in the cement box you're part of a flourishing ecosystem. instead yes and that's what we're that's or hoping to accomplish. when it comes to making this decision i'm guessing you you've already made your decision? yeah i personally i would like to be composted relieve the surrounded by wood chips and you would heat up pretty fast well. in a two hundred sixty degrees in their v. almost nothing left.

except compost after a few week. some come to arlington to me was fast now she runs an environmentally friendly funeral home this call of mourning dove. and it's around here somewhere. there now hundreds of alternatives to metal and hardwood coffins. and roose facsecome a big supplier in new england. but the one this is. a casket made out of an enemy. and i love the fact that this would be a waste this is just be wasted. using all natural matials ans tt they break down and soil in no time it'll. there's a saying we dies we live but it hasn't always been true with their funeral practices because we haven't known. and we have another option. secondly it's not really it's not a very -- elaborate show

room. but recycled paper. definitely is. definitely why would this is great. it was the other way it's kind of a flat. this is a shroud so it could be in it. adrian cemetery man could just be laid on the ground in this. desert see somebody in that there's there is. yep and so that. this woulde. at a shallower level than the six feet under where. it looks. amazing isn't it lovely yeah. the card. for one i want this yeah it is that's the that's the one that has this kind of insert which i've left out of a different -- caer went. in the bottom that it to keep t keep forget you're not going

you're gonna be finearrying. someone on that and then you go into the ground and then in a prison i mean come within a very short time ye the rain. so can you know somebody has said to me i don't wanna casket that's gonna biodegrade faster than i am. so okay i'm gng there you know respect that and then so maybe she would want. to go for a word or something like that or that band food but on the other hand. if if it helps us think about we're going to die and we want to live our life now. and prepare for that and make our peace with that. one that's a good thing [inaudible] hi eva. i'm certainly interested in -- looking.

probably the lightest point who is. yeah yeah. that's right i mean we can we can lift the owner fingers yeah and i mean that's not gonna take too long. to that's not gonna hold up the process let's put it like that it's pretty low tech. as some of you know i've been working with others to try to establish a cemetery. for natural burial in massachusetts if we succeed i will buy the first plot. if we don't succeed. i'd like to go to cedar broke. in lyman name. like any other blue chip i've ever been. well we'll find it -- if you sa.

and yet it is a sunny day and it feels quite nice. yeah i might end up there you may end up. i think that is a cause. every year in the u. s. with very enough. cause they insist on these great liners -- to pave a road from new york to detroit -- huge amounts of formaldehyde which is used in the bombing -- none of that stuff should go into the ground. mourners may decorate the coffi. saying play music talk about the dead or their own feelings place or whatever matters to them that day. i must admit i wish i could be. it sounds like. he was very much.

and this year this is the disgrace like. th year ye and i have been life partners for the last fieen years. does the two months ago. we have a hundred fifty acres here. and three of it is devoted to the cemetery date of birth the cemetery. and how many do you have room. for me figure that out no not la out in rows like you have. in the practice of regular cemetery people come and start to fight because they might like the way a lot of people have selected sites along the stone wall we like thetem of the few. comfort of some people like the fact that the sun is shining on a partilar spot. and right here we we have one woman and her husband selecte a spot because they wanted to nurture chestnut tree it's wonderful to see the psychology of people selecting their final resting. place.

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