Oregon's voices in the green-burial movement see increase in interest | OregonLive.com.
Published: Thursday, July 29, 2010, 3:00 PM
by Laurie Robinson, The Oregonian
The voices for a green grave are sprouting all over. The Shroud Lady in
Southeast Portland. The Green Reaper in Boring. The button-down funeral
director who now wants a wicker casket for his own burial.
Conservationists who want to preserve land, not bodies.
"We
don't need to pickle people," science teacher Larry Hurst of Southwest
Portland says of embalming fluid, which he describes as poison in the
ground. And, he says, we don't need to be encased in concrete vaults or
grave liners that many cemeteries require so the ground doesn't sink
over time.
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From Portland Monthly Magazine
Green up your final act by embracing your own
biodegradability
By Zach
Dundas
You drove a Prius and bought carbon offsets. Whenever you
could, you biked to work. You schlepped cloth bags to the grocery
store—most of the time. You actually gave Greenpeace canvassers the time
of day, and you forked over hard-earned cash to the Sierra Club and the
Nature Conservancy. You ate countless pounds of chard from a one-acre,
biodiesel-powered organic farm in Troutdale. You installed solar panels
and channeled your gutter downspouts into rain barrels. You treated the
weekly recycling sort as a commandment from Gaia.
Well done. Now, however, things have changed: you’re dead. Whither
your hard-earned green credentials now that relatives are pawing through
your organic cotton wardrobe and divvying up your
certified-forest-friendly furniture?
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