Your 101 guide to green burials.
Why Death Care Is Actually A Sustainability Issue + An Intro To Green Burials In life, opportunities to talk about death are few and far between. As such, most of us don't give much thought to how our bodies will be treated after we pass away—and we may not even know that we have a choice in the matter.The green burial movement seeks to change that through a more ecological, intentional, and community-minded approach to death and dying.
, professor and author of Our Last Best Act: Planning for the End of Our Lives To Protect the People and Places We Love, organized a natural burial for her father at his request in 2005, the experience showed her that we all have more agency in death transitions than we may realize.'What it allows beyond conservation is a real reckoning with death, and an engagement of the family and friends that is still feeding me all these years later,' McDuff tells mbg.
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