Biscayne Times
Miami, Florida
February 2012
Eco-friendly services are an option for those who don’t want to harm the environment when they go.
Natural burials tend to cost much less than modern, materials-intensive burials. A typical, modern funeral will run a family about $10,000. By comparison, at the Prairie Creek Conservation Cemetery in Gainesville, the rate for burial is $2000.
A green or natural funeral should be the right of every individual. After all, every other living thing that dies away from human contact has a natural burial. Dead whales sink, dead trees fall, and living decomposers recycle them. That’s the circle of life. The decomposers get us, too, but we tend to slow down the process with formaldehyde.
Read the full article in the Biscayne Times
Thanks to the Death and More Blog for alerting us to this article.
