3 ways to get rid of a dead body

• Leta
• they/she
• Future dead person
• Not particularly macabre
• Likes the planet a lot
• Interested in
  not being a butthead

Good Death

Green burial

1.

Professionals

Embalming

eternal rest under a grass lawn in a vault and sealed casket

Family + Community

Embalming

eternal rest under a grass lawn in a vault and sealed casket

Family + Community

Non-invasive care

eternal rest under a grass lawn in a vault and sealed casket

Family + Community

Non-invasive care

Eternal rest in a cemetery but not sealed up to turn into person-soup

Family + Community

Non-invasive care

Eternal rest but just, like, in the woods or a meadow somewhere

water cremation

2.

AKA aquamation

AKA alkaline hydrolysis

Isn't regular cremation already a green alternative to burial?

yes ok fine this is basically a fancy, legal version of a lye bath

Is it really green?

• uses 90% less energy than flame cremation
• doesn't emit mercury
• the resulting liquid is free of pathogens and heavy metals and can be safely used outdoors

image of Parting Stones (solidified ashes) from Be A Tree Cremation

Human composting

3.

AKA natural organic reduction

Ashes to ashes is all well and good, but maybe we could get a little more creative here

body

= Compost

image from Return Home, a natural organic reduction facility in Washington

natural
burial

water
cremation

Human
composting

death can be scary.

Let's talk about it.

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